Giorgio Ghisi
(Italy 1520–1582)
after Michelangelo Buonarotti
(Italy 1475–1564)
- Title
- The Prophet Ezekiel
- Year
- early 1570s
- Media category
- Materials used
- engraving
- Edition
- 4/5
- Dimensions
-
55.9 x 43.2cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Margaret Delmer 1985
- Accession number
- 236.1985
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This series of prophets and sybils reproduces six of the twelve figures in the pendentives at the lower edges of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512. The date of 1540 which appears on some of the prints is almost certainly incorrect. At this date Ghisi’s engraving style had not developed to the level evident in these prints. Also, the publisher of the engravings, Nicolò van Aelst, was not active until the 1570s. The false dating may therefore have to do with rivalry among publishers and the desire to add value to the prints by claiming that they were the earliest to be made after the Sistine ceiling.
- Bibliography (3)
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Peter Raissis (Australia) (Author), Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 1998, 8. no catalogue numbers
Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Author), Piety and Paganism, Sydney, 1991, 7. no catalogue numbers
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Five years on: a selection of acquisitions 1981-1986, Sydney, 1986. cat.no. 181
- Exhibition history (4)
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Five years on: a selection of acquisitions 1981-1986, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 26 Sep 1986–23 Nov 1986.
Piety and Paganism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 Jul 1991–29 Sep 1991.
Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Jun 1998–20 Sep 1998.
Old Europe: Prints & drawings from the collection 1500-1800, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 03 Jun 2006–06 Aug 2006.
