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| Production People Giovanni Battista Fontana (Print made by)  Fontana, Giovanni Battista b Ala, nr Verona, 1524; d Innsbruck, 25 Sept 1587 Titian (After) Titian [Vecellio, Tiziano] b Pieve di Cadore, c. ?1485-90; d Venice, 27 Aug 1576 Nicolò Nelli (Published by) Nelli, Nicolò b Venice 1535!45; d Venice 1576/85 Title / Description The Martyrdom of St Peter of the Order of Predicant Friars Date 1569 Technique etching, engraving Material paper Dimensions 352 x 255 mm (platemark) Inscriptions Inscribed and signed on the rock at bottom centre: 'TITIANUS INVENTOR/Io Baptista Fontana/incidebat' and with publisher's address and date: 'Nicolai/Nelli for/Vene/1569' State undescribed later state Watermark no Provenance Nikolaus Esterházy (Lugt 1966) References Bartsch XVI.227.23 (undescribed later state) Adam Bartsch, Le peintre-graveur, vols. 21, Vienna 1803-21 Catelli Isola 1976-77, no. 55 Maria Catelli Isola, Immagini da Tiziano: Stampe dal sec. XVI al sec. XIX dalle collezioni del Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Villa Farnesina 1976-77 Comment After Titian's painting, commissioned by the Confraternita di San Pietro Martire for their chapel in SS Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, executed in 1528-30 and destroyed in the fire of 1867. Preperatory drawings are preserved in the Louvre and in Lille, Musée Wicar. The composition was also reproduced in print by Martino Rota, see Bartsch XVI.256.20, our inv. nos. 46813 and 46816. Inventory Number 6981 Classification Prints: Italian: 16th century: Mounted II |
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