Lot 49
Lot 49
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DIANA SCULTORI (1536-1588)

Hercules

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    DIANA SCULTORI (1536-1588)

    Hercules

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    DIANA SCULTORI (1536-1588)
    Hercules
    engraving, 1581, on laid paper, watermark Fleur-de-Lys with crossed Keys in Shield with six-pointed Star (similar to Woodward 115; Rome, 1582), a very good impression of Bellini's second state (of five), printing with a light plate tone, published by Claudio Duchetti, Rome, in the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
    Sheet 350 x 184 mm.
    Provenance
    Christie's, London, 22 June 1999, lot 6 (with two others).
    Eric G. Stanley (1913-2018), Oxford; acquired at the above sale.
    Literature
    Bartsch XV.449.38
    Bellini 52
    Christian Hülsen, Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri, Munich, 1921, no. 119.
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    Lot Essay

    This print depicts the Roman gilt bronze statue of Hercules with the Golden Apples of Hesperides, now at the Museo dei' Conservatori, Musei Capitolini, in Rome. The monumental statue is known as the Capitoline Hercules or the Hercules of the Foro Boario, where is was orginally situated. It is dated to the 2nd century BC and thought to be based on a Greek original of the 4th century BC.

    Claudio Duchetti was the nephew of the publisher Antonio Lafreri, and inherited half of his plates in 1577.
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