Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of Titian
Agostino Carracci (Italian, 1557-1602)LinkedCulture matchlcp-3e0b15a3dcc8
- Date
- 1587
- Medium
- Engraving on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 28199
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Although an optical illusion makes Titian’s bust portrait seem to change size, the two impressions of Agostino Carracci’s Portrait of Titian (1938.1432 and 1919.2562) represent two subsequent states printed from the same reworked copper plate. The background lines at the top of the plate were burnished down to accommodate additional text celebrating Titian’s fame. This sheet has also been repaired in several places, with some of the details and lettering redrawn by hand, making the two prints seem oddly dissimilar on first glance, although Titian’s silhouette has in fact never changed.
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- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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