Antique Print – LORENZO DE MEDICI-PORTRAIT-MORGHEN after VASARI – 1820

Description

Lorenzo De Medici

Stipple engraving on Wove (verlinn) paper.
Sheet size: 30,4 x 41 cm. (12 x 16,1 inch). Image size: 16,3 x 23,7 cm. (6,4 x 9,3 inch).

Source unknown, to be determined. Provenance: With a blind stamp at plate bottom ‘Luigi Bard’ (not in Lugt)

Made by Raffaello Sanzio Morghen after Giorgio Vasari . Raffaello Sanzio Morghen (Naples 1758-Florence 1833) was an Italian engraver. He was born in a family of German engravers, and initially trained by his father. He was apprenticed to Giovanni Volpato to further his training. He engraved portraits of Dante, Petrarch, Leonardo and Ariosto, as well as various mythological and biblical themes. Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.

Condition: Good, given age. On bottom unidentified mark pressed in paper. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: LORENZO DE MEDICI-PORTRAIT

PCO-A10-13