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La Gierusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Bernardo Castello

Print made by: Agostino Carracci
Title
La Gierusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso
Description
English: Frontispiece with the portrait of Torquato Tasso, displayed in an oval medallion, between two naked putti. Architecture with two columns and Ionic capitals supporting an architectural pediment; between the columns is a table identifying the title. Below is represented a view of the port of Genoa; bound in Torquato Tasso, 'La Gierusalemme Liberata' (Genoa, Girolamo Bartoli: 1590).


c. 1586-1590


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Depicted people Associated with: Bernardo Castello
Date 1586-1590 (c.)
Medium paper
Dimensions

Height: 237 millimetres

Width: 160 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1871,0812.298
Notes

This print is bound in Torquato Tasso, 'La Gierusalemme Liberata' (Genoa, Girolamo Bartoli: 1590). The volume is in leather with gold decorative border, lettered on the spine with 'Tasso Fig. da Castel. Gen. 1590', first illustrated edition of the complete book with Tasso's poem, two comments by Scipio Gentili and Giulio Guastavini, and 20 engravings plus frontispiece by Agostino Carracci and Giacomo Franco after Bernardo Castello (1871,0812.298-318). Handwritten note inside the cover. The epic poem the 'Gerusalemme Liberata' by Torquato Tasso narrates the story of the first Crusade, led by Godfrey of Boulogne, who captured Jerusalem in 1099. The poem was published in 1581 and it was republished with illustration in 1590 in Genoa by Girolamo Bartoli. There are twenty-one engravings, including the frontispice. Eleven engravings were signed by Giacomo Franco and two were signed by A.C.F., which Bellori and Malvasia interpreted as Agostino Carracci's signature, and based on this Malvasia ascribed seven additional engravings to Agostino. The engravings reproduce drawings by Bernardo Castello, now in Palermo (Gabinetto di Disegni e Stampe della Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis); see: The Illustrated Bartsch, Italian Master of the sixteenth century, Agostino Carracci, New York 1995, 39, pp. 244-245.

This print is in reverse of the original drawing by B. Castello which is in the Galleria di Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo (inv. no. 106/116), see: The Illustrated Bartsch, Italian Master of the sixteenth century, Agostino Carracci, New York 1995, 39, no. 163; D. De Grazia, Le stampe dei Carracci con i disegni, le incisioni, le copie e i dipinti connessi, Bologna 1984, no. 155.
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