Milo of Croton, after Pordenone
Primary
Attributed to Nicolò Boldrini
(active Vicenza (?), Italy, circa 1500–)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Datecirca 1540
MediumChiaroscuro woodcut
DimensionsSheet: 12 × 16 1/2 in. (30.5 × 41.9 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1996.108
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1996.108
On View
Not on viewLooking at impressions like this one, some early connoisseurs speculated that the composition allowed for the printing of a tone block in pale ink and that the print was conceived as a chiaroscuro. The existence of one such impression, in the British Museum, proves their intuition. That tone block must have been damaged or lost early in the printing. Nonetheless, the second, line block was so skillfully cut and elaborate that it could function well on its own.
Exhibitions
Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubieres, called Comte De Comte de Caylus
1729