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Photograph of Giovanni Bellini's "Madonna degli Alberetti" Anonymous Italian
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Anonymous Italian (Anonymous, Italian) (photographer)after Giovanni Bellini (c. 1431/6 - 1516)
- Object type
- photograph
- Material and technique
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 337 x 254 mm (print); 376 x 301 mm (original mount)
- Inscription
- On the painting and so included in the photograph, on the front edge of the parapet, bottom centre: ·IOANNES·BELLINVS·P· / 1487
On the mount, on the verso:
Top centre, in a copperplate hand, in ink (the middle of the top line partially abraded where something has been removed from the mount's surface: d'all [sic] originale quadro / all' accademia di Belle arti Venezia
Bottom left in pencil: St 37 upper
A loose pencil scribble along the centre of the bottom edge has been struck through with a broad pencil stroke.
The Ruskin School's stamp appears towards the bottom, just left of centre.
- Provenance
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Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.STD.037.a
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Standard no. 37
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Reference Series Including Temporarily the First Section of the Standard Series (London: Smith, Elder, [1872]), cat. Standard no. 37
Ruskin, John, ‘Drawings and Photographs, Illustrative of the Art of Verona, Shown at the Royal Institution, Feb. 4th 1870’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 19, no. 50 = XIX.458
Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Standard no. 37
Ruskin, John, ‘Guide to the Principal Paintings in the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice: Arranged for English Travellers’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 24
Ruskin, John, ‘Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 20
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
37. Madonnas by John Bellini and Raphael.I wish you to compare the manner of conception in these two examples, as of execution in the preceding ones, the Lombardic masters having, I think, the advantage in both respects.
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Ruskin's Standard & Reference series (1872)
37. Madonnas by John Bellini and Raphael.I wish you to compare the manner of conception in these two examples, as of execution in the preceding ones, the Lombardic master having, I think, the advantage in both respects.
