Category:I modi - Tiber in flood (Xanto)

On the Maiolica plate below there are figures that are from four engravings from the erotic book I modi. It is thought that between 1531 to 1535 Xanto saw Agostino Veneziano's copy of I modi and copied these figures on to this maiolica.[1]

There is a second Maiolica plate by Xanto that has copied one figure from one engraving from i modi.[2] This figure appears on both Maiolica plates by Xanto and corresponds to image 3 in the woodcut copy edition of I modi.[2]

  1. James Grantham Turner (December 2004). "Marcantonio's Lost Modi and their Copies". Print Quarterly 21 (4): 366, 369, 379,.
  2. a b James Grantham Turner (2017) Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy, Yale University Press ISBN: 978-0-300-21995-1.