Rare-Antique Master Print-DEATH-CLEOPATRA-ARIADNE-Veneziano-c.1514-1600

Description

Death of Cleopatra (or Ariadne)

Made by an anonymous engraver after Agostino Veneziano after Raphael.

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 12.9 x 8.9 cm (5.08 x 3.5 inch).

Condition: good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

DEATH-CLEOPATRA-ARIADNE | EXPO-ITALIAN

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Reference: Copy in reserve after B.198.

Biography artist: Agostino Veneziano (“Venetian Agostino”), whose real name was Agostino de’ Musi (c.1490-c.1540), was an important and prolific Italian engraver of the Renaissance.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520), now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.