All'antica Trophies, number 5 of 6

Inscriptions

Signed, in plate, lower right: ANT LAFRERI ANT / LAFRERI| watermark: Three Flowers in circle topped by a star

Label

Enea Vico’s six-print series All’Antica Trophies, after designs by Polidoro da Caravaggio, demonstrates an endless recombination of motifs. It also reveals how such ornamental patterns spread between different media. Polidoro had worked with Raphael to paint the Vatican Stanze, and he later painted façades of Roman palazzi (palaces) with bands of antique and grotesque embellishment. These façades, in turn, were copied by young artists in Rome such as Vico. These prints, which showcase stacks of armor, shields, drums, weapons, and fantastical creatures, could then serve as inspirations for sculptors to incorporate into their works, creating a shared European vocabulary of ornamentation.

 From the 2024 exhibition Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, and Ashley B. Offill, Curator of Collections

Course History

History 42.01, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies 22.01, Gender & European Society, Patrick Meehan, Spring 2024

History 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2024

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024

Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024

Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.

Publication History

T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, listed p.72.

Published References

See: Elizabeth Miller, 16th Century Italian Ornament Prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: V & A Publications, 1999, cat. 50f, p. 9-14.

Provenance

Jan Johnson Old Master & Modern Prints Inc., Montreal, Quebec; purchased by present collection, 2000.

Catalogue Raisonne

Bartsch XV, 446

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