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Olympus
(1540s)
- Medium
- chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks in brown and black inks
- Measurements
- 27.2 × 19.2 cm (image and sheet, trimmed to block mark)
- Place/s of Execution
- Italy
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Takahatake 47 iii/vi; Bartsch XII.146.10
- Edition
- 3rd of 6 states
- Accession Number
- 2296-4
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1950
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- 16th & 17th Century Gallery - Painting and Sculpture
Mezzanine linked to Level 1, NGV International - About this work
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Antonio da Trento left Bologna abruptly in 1530 and subsequently established a partnership with the printmaker Niccolò Vicentino in the Veneto region. There chiaroscuro woodcut production continued, and Vicentino’s workshop became the most prolific in the sixteenth century. The number of chiaroscuro prints made here that were based on Parmigianino’s designs lends credence to Giorgio Vasari’s allegation that da Trento had stolen a cache of drawings from the master when he disappeared in 1530.