Frankfurt Antiquarian Book Fair

  (October  15th-19th 2008)

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   GOYA 18 DISPARATES

December 20th 2008-16th January 6th 2009

The plates of the Proverbios were re-editioned 8 times after the First Edition (1864), the last edition in 1937. The exhibition presents the THIRD EDITION edited in 1891

      Galleria Via Claudia Augusta

           Feltre - Piazza Maggiore

                 

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Lucas van Leyden  -   Venus and Cupid

Antonio Salamanca – Aaron

 

Annibale Carracci – The Holy Family,  1590

 

Stefano Della Bella - Death on the Battlefield, 1663)

G.B. Frulli – Adam and Eve

Marino Marini  -  Horse , 1953

 Marino Marini  -  The Hanged Man , 1946

Livio Ceschin - Sottobosco 

 

This is not a large plate of Lucas van Leyden but a small hight quality sheet. The paper, the watermark and the impression are right! Here you can see a real fresh proof of this print in which the composition  is drawned with elegance .

 

Salamanca was a print publisher but he was also an artist of uncommon ability and  personality. He was also competent as a printmaker. If you have been in Parma and you have seen the Steccata frescos of Parmigianino, you certainly remember the monochrom with the prophet Aaron. We don’t know if this print reproduces the fresco or just one of the several drawings with color that relate to Parmigianino's Steccata frescoes. We just want to tell you something about the impression strange story of this print which has a high-key luminosity. Click on the image for discovering more details about the states.

  

“Light  and shade glide over forms, creating glistening highlights, soft transitions of grey, and pockets of velvety shadow. The lines that define the distant landscape flicker in a light-saturated atmosphere.” Richard Wallace 

 

The Death in this print has the elegance of a Diva and She moves forward majestically. She looks like an apocalyptic rider but she doesn’t strike fear into our heart. Such a beautiful Della Bella printed work!

The present print is an intimate charming image after a Parmigianino’s  drawing of the Gini collection. Here we can use the term “painter’s etching”. The extensive use of aquatint produces fine tonal gradations and create the peculiar charm of this striking work.


There is a recurrent theme in Marino Marini’s works: it’s the theme of the horse. This lithograph is a very simple composition that is free of any descriptive detail. Here we can only see the essential mythical quality of the Asian and of the primitive statuary. 

 

 

“It would be correct to regard this as a Crucifixion, a theme with an explicit allusion to the horrors of the war. The victim outstretched arms are raised before a naked, potbellied executioner wearing the classic German helmet.” Mario de Micheli

What do we have to say about Livio Ceschin etched works? His ability in printmaking and his technical mastery is demonstrated. We love the sound of silence and the quiet of the countryside or the melancholy of a beach in winter that we can see, synaestheticaly, in these etchings from the Veneto…. land that we love.     

 
 
 

        
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