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Artist/Maker	Bonasone, Giulio (Engraver) Parmigianino (Designer)
Place of origin	Italy (Made)

Ornamental frieze with a winged centaur lighting a torch at an altar

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Category	Ornament Prints
Object type	Print
Materials and techniques	Engraving Engraving
Brief description	Giulio Bonasone and Francesco Parmigianino, ornamental frieze with centaur and putto. Italian, early 1540s.
Physical description	Ornamental frieze with a winged centaur lighting a torch at an altar
Dimensions	Cut to height: 13.2cm Cut to width: 29.6cm
Style	Renaissance
Production	From Miller (1999), p. 60: This engraving is after a lost drawing by Parmigianino, a copy of which is in the Louvre (Popham, vol. 1, p. 237, no. 26)
Subjects depicted	Centaur Putto Foliation (Pattern) Torch Altar
Bibliographic references	Bartsch, A., Le Peintre-Graveur, 21 vols, Vienna, 1803-21, vol. XV, 353. Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 288, no. 20. Berliner, R. and Egger, G., Ornamentale Vorlageblätter des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts, 3 vols, Munich, 1981, 370. Byrne, J.S., Renaissance Ornament Prints and Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of art, New York, 1981, 56. Massari, S., Giulio Bonasone, 2 vols, Exhibition catalogue, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, 1983, 7a. Miller, E., 16th-century Italian ornament prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1999, p. 60 (cat. 12). Popham, A. E., Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, 3 vols, New Haven and London, 1971.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	29460:10

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O969209/print-bonasone-giulio/

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