An interior in candlelight with male figures drawing; sculptures, books, skulls and a human skeleton arranged on a shelf and on the floor. Engraving by E. Vico after B. Bandinelli.

  • Bandinelli, Baccio, 1493-1560.
Date:
[between 1560 and 1569?]
Reference:
32727i
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An interior in candlelight with male figures drawing; sculptures, books, skulls and a human skeleton arranged on a shelf and on the floor. Engraving by E. Vico after B. Bandinelli. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The man on the right hand side with the Order of St. James is a self-portrait of Baccio Bandinelli

Publication/Creation

Romae : Petrus Paulus Palumbus Formis : Gaspar Albertus successor Palumbi, [between 1560 and 1569?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 30.3 x 47.4 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Baccius Bandinellus invent ; Enea Vigo parmegiano sculpsit.

Edition

State III of 3 (Bartsch's state II).

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Leipzig, 1854-1870, vol. XV, p. 171, no. 49
N. Pevsner, Academies of art past and present, New York, 1973, pp. 40-42
Il primato del disegno in Firenze e la Toscana dei Medici nell' Europa del cinquecento, exhib. cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1980, nos. 687, 688
The draughtsman's eye, late Italian Renaissance schools and styles, exhib cat., edited by E. Olszewski with J. Glaubiger, 1981, no. 74
D. Landau and P. Parshall, The Renaissance print 1470-1550, New Haven/ London, 1994, p. 286
Ben Thomas, 'The academy of Baccio Bandinelli', Print quarterly, 2005, 22: 3-14 (p. 9, fig. 6)

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Wellcome Collection 32727i

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