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Engraving of the Ceiling and Lunette of "David the Psalmist" from the Garden Loggia of the Palazzo del Te Rinaldo Mantovano
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Details
- Artist/maker
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after Rinaldo Mantovano (active 1528 - 1564)after Benedetto Pagni (1504 - 1578)after Giulio Romano (Pippi) (1499 - 1546) (designer)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over engraving on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 440 mm wide (plate); 344 x 493 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Wilhelm Heinrich Ludwig Gruner (1801 - 1882) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Lombardia (Lombardy) › Mantova › Mantua › Palazzo del Te › Palazzo del Te (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
engraved:
top right: 22.
the two main images are labelled, below and above respectively, 'A' and 'B'
bottom, in two columns: Gewölbe-Verzierung, Plan und einzelne Theile der Vorhalle | im Palast del T in Mantua || Décorations de la voûte, plans et details du Vestibule | du Palais du T à Mantue.
bottom right, in graphite: R116
Verso:
bottom right, in graphite, written diagonally up and to the left of the sheet: Rud 116
right, just below centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- 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.RUD.116
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, in the Arrangement of 1873, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1984), cat. Rudimentary no. 116, RUD.116
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 115-119
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 115-119
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 115-119
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. Rudimentary no. 115-119
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
R|115–R|119} Examples of Decoration, designed by Raphael, Giulio Romano, and their scholars. The arts devoted entirely to the pleasure of the eye, and caprice of fancy: perfect in skill by the practice of ages; but now entirely destructive of morality, intellectual power, and national character. E. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|115 – R|119} Examples of Decoration, designed by Raphael, Giulio Romano, and their scholars. The arts devoted entirely to the pleasure of the eye, and caprice of fancy: perfect in skill by the practice of ages; but now entirely destructive of morality, intellectual power, and national character. E. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|115 – R|119} Examples of Decoration, designed by Raphael, Giulio Romano, and their scholars. The arts devoted entirely to the pleasure of the eye, and caprice of fancy: perfect in skill by the practice of ages; but now entirely destructive of morality, intellectual power, and national character. E.
