115/ Artwork networks of illustrated publications (6): woodcuts of 1502 and painted enamel plaques of 1530
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On this
submit a novel sequence of gorgeous painted enamel copper plaques are mentioned.
They’re attributed to an unidentified artist with given title MAÎTRE
de l’ENÉIDE, energetic in Limoges round 1530, and had been modelled after effective
woodcuts of Johann GRUENINGER
(1455–1533), illustrating the ‘Aeneid’ of the Latin poet Virgil
(70 – 19 BC), edited in 1502 in Strasbourg. Fig.1 compares the primary woodcut of
the title web page and the corresponding enamel plate (1). The composition exhibits Virgilius at his desk, his muse Musa
in entrance and to the correct with giant figures, the well-known story of Paris,
Venus, Juno and Pallas. Whereas this story isn’t informed within the Aeneid – nor within the Iliad of Homer – it’s speculated to be well-known to all readers, together with these of
1502, as
the reason for the Trojan Battle (2).
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Determine SEQ Determine * ARABIC 1 left: woodcut of Johannes GRUENINGER; proper: corresponding enamel plate of Maître de l’Enéide (1) |
In 1835 had been for the primary time
two plates acknowledged as akin to among the authentic woodcuts. The
lengthy historical past and the dialogue concerning the true identification of the artist and the
origin of this extraordinary homogeneous sequence, with nearly all of plates of
an identical rectangular form of ca 20 cm, has been informed many instances. 4 different names of enamel artists of Limoges
have been proposed unsuccessfully and nothing is understood concerning the patron or
commissioner and the aim of the creation. However there’s common settlement
concerning the date of manufacturing (1530-35) and about the truth that certainly the
authentic version of the woodcuts of Strasbourg 1502 was used as mannequin and never any
later version of decrease high quality or imperfect.
In 1999 Suzanne Netzer (3) made a abstract and
discovered 67 corresponding painted enamel
plates in 17 collections, dispersed in France, Germany, The Netherlands, UK
and USA as demonstrated with a Google Map in
Fig.2.
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| Determine SEQ Determine * ARABIC 2 Google Map of the dispersion of enamel plates Maître de l’Enéide |
web-pages of the 8 museums the place the pictures of the enamel plates are easy
accessible. The desk exhibits additionally the nrs
1 – 103 of the consecutive woodcuts within the 9 first Books of the Aeneid. The
desk tells moreover about 8 plates recorded in catalogues or literature of collections (e.g. some Rothschild’s
collections), about 7 plates in previous auctions and about 21 woodcuts that are
not but documented as fashions for enamel plates. Nonetheless, latest auctions have
elevated the variety of recognized plaques as much as 84 (4).
Tabel 1: Collections of # plaques Maître de l’Enéide
with corresponding woodcut numbers
(click on the hyperlink to view accessible photos)
|
Metropolis |
Assortment |
# |
woodcut nr |
|
Amsterdam |
1 |
1 |
|
|
Albi |
Musée |
1 |
5 |
|
Alnwick |
Citadel |
6 |
86,88,89, 90,92,93 |
|
Aylesbury |
Waddesdon |
1 |
59 |
|
Baltimore |
7 |
21,49,64, 66,77,84,96 |
|
|
Berlin |
Kunstgewerbemuseum |
2 |
47,50 |
|
Cambridge |
Fitzwilliam |
1 |
70 |
|
Cleveland |
1 |
10 |
|
|
Ecouen |
Musée de la |
2 |
41,42 |
|
Frankfurt |
Museum für |
1 |
29 |
|
London |
1 |
45 |
|
|
London |
2 |
37,87 |
|
|
Los Angeles |
2 |
25,52 |
|
|
Luton |
Wernher |
1 |
15 |
|
New York |
15 |
16,20,22,24,32,33,34,46,51,55,75,79,98,102, 103 |
|
|
Paris |
12 |
2,3,4,9,14,23,28,30,31,36,40,91 |
|
|
Paris |
Archive Alain |
11 |
7,12,13,19,35,38, 39,62,72,76,95 |
|
subtotal |
|
67 |
|
|
|
former collections |
8 |
6,8,17,48, 53,63,67,71 |
|
|
auctions of |
7 |
60,61,68,73,78,100,101 |
|
|
not but documented |
21 |
11,18,26,27,43,44, 54,56,57,58,65,69, 74, 80-83,85,94,97, 99 |
|
subtotal |
|
36 |
|
Wishful
pondering ? 9 extra collections present photos of their Maître de l’Enéide enamels on their webpages…
NOTES
- 1.left: Vergilius
Maro, Publius: Publij Virgilij Maronis
Opera : [cum quinque vulgatis commentariis ex politissimisque figuris …]
/ [per Seb. Brant superadditis]. –
In civitate Argentena: J. Grieninger,
1502. – [6], CCCCVII [i.e. CCCCX], XXXIIII Bl. : Ailing.
Digital Library of the University ofHeidelberg
proper: copper plaque 22,8 x 20,2 cm,
inscription: ‘CARTHAGO CLOTHO LACHESIS
ATROPOS VIRGILIVS MVSA PARIS VENVS IVNO PALAS HEBE IVPITER’, often called ‘Oordeel
van Paris’ since 1819 in
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum/ inv BK-NM-7323
2. The Aeneid is the legendary
story of the Trojan hero Aeneas. It counts 12 books and is basically
political propaganda: “…Aeneas’ preordained destiny to discovered
Rome, in addition to Rome’s preordained destiny to rule the world.” (see a full account in Wikiwand)
On this
weblog, a number of posts talk about the iconography
associated to Aeneas:
35/The one-night stand of a Goddess with penalties
36/Extra concerning the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
65/Distant Viewing (5): Love, Battle and Propaganda
96/Antoine WATTEAU (1684-1721), the pacifist painter: a quantitative method
1. 3. S. Netzer ‘Maleremails aus Limoges : der Bestand des
Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseums’ Berlin: G + H Verl., 1999.
https://katalog.slub-dresden.de/id/0-1147039844 The dispersion particulars are
these given in ‘Aeneas-Meister
Künstler-Datensatz’ of Deutsche Fotothek.
- 4.*Christie’s 28 Nov
2017 Live Auction 15055: Maître de l’Enéide, paire
de plaques - *London,
Sotheby’s 2019, July 2, lot 27: Property from a German Personal Assortment Grasp of the Aeneid (energetic ca.
1530-40), | panel with a scene from guide iii of the Aeneid - *Paris,
Hôtel Drouot, Coutau-Bégarie 28 mai 2021: Maître de l’Énéide, Les Bocages
fortunés, plaque en émail peint polychrome sur cuivre et sur paillons d’argent
avec rehauts d’or, 22,5 x 19,8 cm. Estimation : 200 000/300 000 €, adjugé 1 184
960 €
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October 25, 2021 102/ Artwork networks of illustrated publications (3): a disordered hyper-network
November 11, 2021 103/ Mad about Baudelaire and his Venus statue or Artwork networks of illustrated publications (4)
April 13, 2022 107/ Artwork networks of illustrated publications (5): define engravers of the early nineteenth century in France
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