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Adam,
1505–09
Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1480–ca. 1534; born San Martino dall’Argine, Italy; died Bologna, Italy
after Albrecht Dürer, 1471–1528; born and died Nuremberg, Germany; active Venice, Italy, and Nuremburg
after Albrecht Dürer, 1471–1528; born and died Nuremberg, Germany; active Venice, Italy, and Nuremburg
x1945-47
In early sixteenth-century Venice, Albrecht Dürer famously took the printmaker Marcantonio Raimondi to court, accusing the latter of copying his woodcuts—and thus initiating one of the first documented disputes over intellectual property. Through his careful study of Dürer’s prints, Marcantonio developed and perfected his own engraved line; this drawing of a male nude is a copy after Dürer’s 1504 engraving Adam and Eve. Marcantonio diverged from Dürer’s print significantly by altering the proportions of the figure and creatively converting Dürer’s wiry, Nordic Adam into a robust Italianate armless statue (evoking Dürer’s antique source, the Apollo Belvedere sculpture in the Vatican)—while also preserving his chest hair.
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Title
Adam
Dates
1505–09
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
19.5 × 10.9 cm (7 11/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
frame: 54.8 × 41.9 × 3.5 cm (21 9/16 × 16 1/2 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1945-47
Inscription
in graphite, verso upper left: L 15
in graphite, upper right: P/220
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 506
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Victor Litta, Milan;
Carlo Prayer [Lugt 2044].
Frank Jewett Mather Jr.[Lugt 1853a];
Gift to the Princeton University Art Museum
- Exhibition of drawings by old masters from the private collection of Prof. Frank Jewett Mather: International Art Center of Roerich Museum: December 18th to 31st, 1930, (New York: Roerich Museum, 1930)., no. 9
- Peter B. Blanchard, Rona Goffen and David Steadman, Copies as originals: translations in media and techniques, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1974)., no. 5; p. 25 (illus.)
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 218, no. 706 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- Wendy Stedman Sheard, Antiquity in the Renaissance, (Northampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 1978)., no. 52
- Innis H Shoemaker, Elizabeth Broun and Helen Foresman, The engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi, (Lawrence, KS: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; Chapel Hill, NC: Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, 1981)., p. 64, fig. 18
- Marzia Faietti and Konrad Oberhuber, Bologna e lʼumanesimo, 1490-1510, (Bologna: Nuova Alfa, 1988)., p. 197-199; cat. no. 52
- Gian Mario Anselmi and Marzia Faietti, Humanismus in Bologna: 1490-1510, (Bologna: Nuova Alfi Ed., 1988).
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Anna Forlani Tempesti. "Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth- Century Drawings." Vol. 5 of The Robert Lehman Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991).
, p. 261 - Sabine Frommel, Bologna crocevia e capitale della migrazione artistica: forestieri a Bologna e bolognesi nel mondo, secoli XV-XVI, (Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2010)., Gibbons 1977, 164–65, no. 506
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 67, cat. no. 27; p. 68 (illus.); p. 69 (verso illus.)
