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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Beccafumi, Domenico Creator Nationality: Italian Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1484 - 1551 Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Cortine, in Valdiviana Montaperti Creator Death Place: Siena Creator Name-CRT: Domenico Beccafumi Title: Saint Peter Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1542 Creation End Date: 1552 Creation Date: c. 1547 Object Type: Prints Classification Term: Print Materials and Techniques: chiaroscuro woodcut printed in four shades of brown Dimensions: Sheet: 41.2cm x 21.4cm AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 2002.9 Credit Line: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund Rights: http://www.clevelandart.org/museum/disclaim2.html Provenance: John Barnard (Lugt 1419); Fermor-Hesketh Library, Easton Neston, Northamptonshire [Sotheby's sale, London, June 21,2001, lot 43]; [Artemis, London] Style or Period: Italy, 16th century Context: Chiaroscuro was used in the early 16th century to describe drawings done on a colored paper, where dark ink wash created shadows, and highlights were added with opaque white paint. Printmakers duplicated these effects by printing several woodblocks in color, allowing the white of the paper to act as the highlights. Around 1547, Domenico Beccafumi executed six chiaroscuro woodcuts of Apostles, including St. Peter, his most skillful, complex, and successful prints. The blocks were carved in an innovative manner. In order to attain brilliant highlights, Beccafumi created the effect of thin white hatching lines on a dark ground. He also treated each impression as a separate work of art, experimenting with the number of blocks printed and varying the color combinations.Living in Siena, Beccafumi was an important and extremely versatile artist, probably the most imaginative and daring printmaker of the Italian Renaissance. He began to engrave in the 1520s but was dissatisfied with this linear technique because it could not duplicate the rich tones of his drawings. To achieve areas of tone, Beccafumi began to print one or two woodblocks before printing the engraved plate. Soon he concentrated just on woodcuts. AMICA ID: CMA_.2002.9 AMICA Library Year: 2003 Media Metadata Rights: AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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