GIULIO DI ANTONIO BONASONE (C. 1498-C. 1580)

The Wreath

c.1520-46

Engraving | 33.2 x 42.2 cm (print) (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851832

An engraving based on a drawing by Giulio Romano currently housed in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (inv. no.A*48). Very late state; not described in Bartsch. Signed with the engraver's name at lower left: IV.BONASO.F. Lettered with the addresses of Lafréry and de Nobili. Laid down on a sheet with pencil annotations. Not listed in Ruland's Raphael Collection catalogue (1876).

The drawing on which this engraving is based is a study for a painted medallion in the Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo Te, Mantua. The engraving differs from the drawing in a few details, including the figure of the sleeping woman in the left foreground which may be an invention by Bonasone himself derived from the renowned classical sculpture of the Sleeping Ariadne now in the Vatican Museums (see Massari 1983, I, p.62). A second state impression at RCIN 851831.

Creator(s)

Giulio di Antonio Bonasone (c. 1498-c. 1580) (engraver)

After Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546) (artist)

Antoine Lafréry (1512-77) (publisher)

Pietro de' Nobili (active 1584–85) (publisher)
annotation: n.111 J. Bonasone / Flora assise dans un jardin avec les nymphes / d'ap J. Romain Landon la donne à Raphael [back, lower margin]

annotation: B.III / Jules Romain / Bartsch XV. p.142 n.111. The Garden of Flora. after Giulio Romano / X / Landon 469 / Pf 18. D.LIII 1a [backing sheet, front, lower margin, in pencil]
33.2 x 42.2 cm (print) (sheet of paper)

38.8 x 48.6 cm (backing sheet) (sheet of paper)
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
Subject(s)
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
  Literature
  Fiction
  Tales & legends
  Myths
- Religion & Theology
  Religions and faiths
  Religions of antiquity
  Classical mythology
  Venus (mythology)
  Cupid
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
  Decorative techniques & surface decoration
  Floral decorations
  Wreaths
  Wreaths-Floral
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Bibliographic reference(s)

Bacou 1984 : Bacou, R. Autour de Raphaël. Dessins et peintures du Musée du Louvre, 1984 p.44, under no.45

Massari 1993 : Massari, S, 1993. Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit : Opere grafiche autografe di collaborazione e bottega, Rome pp.64-5, no.54

van Tuyll van Serooskerken 2000 : van Tuyll van Serooskerken, C., 2000. The Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Teyler Museum. pp.202-04, under no.145

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Ruland p.136 D.LIII.1a(add)

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