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Christ Bound to the Column

Print
1889 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Christ bound to a marble column in front of an archway through which can be seen a sky and landscape.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleChrist Bound to the Column (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
Chromolithograph - 'Christ Bound to the Column' 1889. Arundel Society. Artist, Wilhelm Greve after Eduard Kaiser after Giovanni Antonio Bazzi.
Physical description
Christ bound to a marble column in front of an archway through which can be seen a sky and landscape.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 46cm
  • Sheet width: 36cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Christ Bound to the Column (Lettered)
  • After the fresco by Bazzi, now in the Academy of Fine Arts, Siena. From a water colour drawing by Herr Kaiser. Chromolithographed by Wilhelm Greve, Berlin. Arundel Society First Publikation [sic] 1889. (Lettered)
  • Notice As to Framing [title, frame details and] Arundel Society, 19 St James's Street, London S.W., 1889 (Attached to the print)
Credit line
Given by Brian and Jessica Kempster
Object history
RP No. 92/536
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Johnson, W. Noel. A Handbook to the Collection of Chromo-Lithographs from Copies of Important Works of Ancient Masters. Published by the Arundel Society, Manchester, 1907.
  • The following excerpt is from Crompton, L. (2006). Homosexuality & Civilization. Cambridge [et al.]: Belknap Press, p.278: 'Born in Vercelli near Milan, Bazzi may have studied under Leonardo during his stay in that city - a Leonardesque quality in his faces suggests this possibility. By 1500 he had settled in Siena and was soon the city's leading artist and a popular, if eccentric, local character. Exactly when he adopted his opprobrious nickname (Il Sodoma) is uncertain. Though the Renaissance has enjoyed a reputation (hardly deserved) for tolerance, Bazzi was unique in publicly acknowledging his sexual orientation; no other European coif comparable note would do so again until André Gide. How did his contemporaries react? The record is decidedly checkered.'
Collection
Accession number
E.2169-1992

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Record createdMarch 18, 2009
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