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File:Engraving by an unkown Artist - printed with brownish ink - dated to around 1530 - National Library of Spain - 2.jpg

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English: This is an image of an engraving that is in the National Library of Spain.[1] This engraving copies a scene that is from I modi.[1]


This scene of I modi is not present in the woodcut booklet of I modi[1] and none of the fragments thought to be by Agostino Veneziano in the British Museum are related to this scene.[1][2]

I Modi was a book thought to have been created in around 1524 to 1527.[3] This book contained engravings of sexual scenes.[3][2]


A section of the engraving is missing at the top. The losses have been made up for in ink.[1]


Artist: It is unknown who the artist of the engraving above is.[1]

Technique: Engraving

Brownish ink.

Date: After 1530

Collection: National Library of Spain

Inventory Number: INVENT/45510
Date
Source National Library of Spain
Author National Library of Spain
Other versions
  • A second image of the same engraving. This image has been reversed.[1]
    A second image of the same engraving. This image has been reversed.[1]
  • A sepia drawing by Johan Tobias Sergel (1740 - 1814) that possibly copies one scene from I modi. The scene that it copies can be seen on an engraving from the National Library of Spain. This is the engraving that is shown on this file.
    A sepia drawing by Johan Tobias Sergel (1740 - 1814) that possibly copies one scene from I modi. The scene that it copies can be seen on an engraving from the National Library of Spain. This is the engraving that is shown on this file.
  • A second sepia drawing by Johan Tobias Sergel This drawing has similarities to the scene from I modi that is present on an engraving in the National library of Spain. This is the engraving that is shown on this file.
    A second sepia drawing by Johan Tobias Sergel This drawing has similarities to the scene from I modi that is present on an engraving in the National library of Spain. This is the engraving that is shown on this file.
  • A coppplate engraving with similarities to a scene from I modi that is in the National Library of Spain. End of the 18th century.
    A coppplate engraving with similarities to a scene from I modi that is in the National Library of Spain. End of the 18th century.
  • A different second engraving that is in the National library of Spain. This engraving corresponds to image 1 in the woodcut booklet. Both of these two images in the National Library of Spain are by an unknown artist and dated to after 1530.[1] They are also both "…uniform in engraving style, paper and ink…".[4]
    A different second engraving that is in the National library of Spain. This engraving corresponds to image 1 in the woodcut booklet. Both of these two images in the National Library of Spain are by an unknown artist and dated to after 1530.[1] They are also both "…uniform in engraving style, paper and ink…".[4]

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h James Grantham Turner (2017) Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy, Yale University Press, pp. 156 - 157 ISBN: 978-0-300-21995-1.
  2. ↑ a b James Grantham Turner (2004-12). "Marcantonio's Lost Modi and their Copies". Print Quarterly 21 (4).
  3. ↑ a b James Grantham Turner (2009-06). "Woodcut Copics of the "Modi"". Print Quarterly 26 (2): 117.
  4. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named 2017 Visible p409

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A scene that has been copied from I modi. The artist is unkown. Engraving. Brownish ink. Dated to around 1530. National Library of Spain

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