id: 136307 accession number: 1960.19 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.19 updated: 2022-01-04 16:06:33.060000 Virgin and Child with St. John, St. Catherine of Siena and St. Francis, 1585. Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610), after Jacopo Ligozzi (Italian, 1547-1626). Chiaroscuro woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fortieth Anniversary Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of William Mathewson Milliken 1960.19 title: Virgin and Child with St. John, St. Catherine of Siena and St. Francis title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1585 creation date earliest: 1585 creation date latest: 1585 current location: creditline: Fortieth Anniversary Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of William Mathewson Milliken copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: chiaroscuro woodcut department: Prints collection: PR - Chiaroscuro type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Bartsch XII.67.27 --- CREATORS * Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610) - artist Born in Mantua in ca. 1559, Andrea Andreani was the most accomplished practitioner of chiaroscuro technique in late sixteenth-century Italy. Little is known about his initial training. He began as a blockcutter. Around 1583, he started to copy early line woodcuts into new chiaroscuro versions. He also reproduced intarsia pavements, sculptures, and bronze reliefs with the same method. Andreani was active in Rome (ca. 1580), Florence (1583-86), and Siena (1586-1593), before returning permanently to his native city and setting up a workshop. He died in Manuta in 1629. Andreani's oeuvre includes large prints comprising several sheets, such as his copy of Triumph of Christ after Titian, and copies of drawings based on Mantegna's cartoons for the Triumph of Caesar. Between 1602 and 1610, Andreani reprinted and recut earlier chiaroscuro woodblocks by Ugo da Carpi, Antonio da Trento and Niccolò Vicentino, bringing them to new levels of technical and visual refinement. * Jacopo Ligozzi (Italian, 1547-1626) - artist Born in Verona ca. 1543, Jacopo Ligozzi was an Italian Mannerist painter and designer, and a disciple of the artist Paolo Veronese. After a brief sojourn in the Habsburg court in Vienna, he moved to Florence in 1577. there he worked as a painter for the Grand Duke Ferdinand II de' Medici, and he was also conferred the title of superintendent of the Ducal Gallery. Ligozzi was best known as a scientific draughtsman making studies of plants and animals for the Medici court. He died in Florence in 1632. Andrea Andreani executed several woodcuts after his works. --- measurements: state of the work: I/I edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Lettered upper left: (J)acopo Ligozio Veronese Pittor'del / (Se)reniss Gran Duca di Tosc Inven / (A)ndrea Andriano / (M)ant.o.Intagliator.e /All Ill.o Signor / Nicolo Gaddi / in Fiorenza / °1585° translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). title: A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland opening date: 2019-05-05T04:00:00 A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 22, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: The CMA owns another version of this chiaroscuro woodcut, which differs in the color of the ink used to print it (1949.81). digital description: Printed from four blocks in brown, this chiaroscuro woodcut shows the Virgin and Child flanked by the infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Francis at right. Saint Catherine of Siena takes place on the left, and holds a flower. wall description: Artists working in 16th-century Italy developed the chiaroscuro woodcut as a means of representing depth and creating dramatic contrasts between light and shadow. Andrea Andreani was among the first to use the process to reproduce paintings and drawings by other artists, an important function of printed images in the Renaissance. This image of Christ and the Virgin surrounded by saints reproduces the design of a painting after Jacopo Ligozzi, if not its original color scheme. Typical of the technique, four blocks of different colors were employed to create the highlights, shading, and deep shadows of the composition. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.19/1960.19_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.19/1960.19_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.19/1960.19_full.tif