Naval Battle between Greeks and Trojans - Etching by G. B.Scultori - 1538

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Giovanni Battista Scultori
Naval Battle between Greeks and Trojans - Etching by G. B.Scultori - 1538
1538

About the Item

Naval battle between Greeks and Trojans is an original etching realized by Giovanni Battista Scultori (1503-1575) in 1538. Black and white burin. Second state of five. Glued on a secondary support. Inscriptions on plate on the lower center: “I. B. MANTVANVS/ SCULPTOR 1538” . It is not possible to trace the presence of the watermark, as the copy is pasted on a secondary paper support; the sheet has a central fold, usual for works of this size, closed on the reverse with reinforcing paper; there are also some small tears along the perimeter and an unidentifiable ink inscription in the lower left corner Reference: - Adam Bartsch, Le Peintre graveur, Vienna, 1820, vol. XV, n. 20 - Stefania Massari (a cura di), Incisori mantovani del ‘500. Giovan Battista, Adamo, Diana Scultori e Giorgio Ghisi dalle collezioni del Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe e della Calcografia Nazionale, De Luca, Roma, 1980, n. 6 - Tiziano Ortolani (a cura di), Nuovi sentieri incisi tra Mantova e Roma, incisioni da Mantegna a Reverdino, Milano, Galleria Marca d'Acqua, 1999, p. 22, n. 6 - TIB - THE ILLUSTRATED BARTSCH, New York, Abaris, 1978-1983, 20, V. 31 p. 26 Refined, elaborate and well-known engraving, in which Giovan Battista Scultori demonstrates his drawing skills, technical skill in the use of the burin and an extraordinary creative vein. It is possible to recognize, in the excitement of the event, the chariot of Poseidon (Neptune in Roman mythology), a reference perhaps to the XIV book of the Iliad in which it is said that, taking advantage of the sleep of Zeus, induced by Hera, Poseidon went to rescue the Greeks by allowing them to defeat the Trojans. Prince Hector, seriously wounded with a stone by Ajax Telamon, was brought back to Troy before his final defeat. The virile and powerful nude who, brandishing a long sword, guides the Greeks, described in the background of the composition, could personify Poseidon himself, while the man on the ground, placed at his feet and defended by a fellow warrior, would instead be the Trojan prince. For Bartsch, who indicates the burin as the best among those made by the Mantuan master, the work would derive from a drawing by Giulio Romano while the studies dedicated to the sculptors have assigned him the originality of the composition. The rendering of the bodies, the strong plasticity and the lively movement however recall the language of Giulio Romano, to whom the Scultori looked with attention, as well as references to the Raphael of the Sistine Tapestries for the definition of some details, such as, , the man described on the right, with his arms raised in the act of lifting a wounded man, deriving from the cartoon for the “Miraculous Fishing”. The work consists of about forty-three figures, a river, four sea horses and Poseidon's chariot. In his Treatise on painting, published in Milan in 1584, Paolo Lomazzo indicates the work as an example for those who wanted to deal with this subject, enhancing the skills of the sculptors. The specimen seems to belong to the second state, bearing the signature but not the excudits of Van Aelst, then of Giovanni Giacomo de 'Rossi and finally that of the Chamber Chalcography; the addresses of the printers follow one another, in the third, fourth and fifth states, in the lower right corner. The Chamber Chalcography, in creating the last state in 1823, censored the plate, now kept at the National Calcoteca in Rome.

Creator:
Giovanni Battista Scultori
Creation Year:
1538
Dimensions:
Height: 16.54 in (42 cm)Width: 24.02 in (61 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
Medium:
Etching,Paper
Movement & Style:
Old Masters
Period:
16th Century
Framing:
Framing Options Available
Condition:
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Gallery Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
Seller: M-1199071stDibs: LU65038144292

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