Research Catalog

Title

[The Venetian wedding] [graphic].

Author

Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?

Publication

[Frankfurt am Main, 1585 or later]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barendsz, Dirck, 1534-1592.
• Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617.

Description

1 print : engraving, b&w; diam. image 16 cm.

Summary

Representation of a well-dressed bridal couple, their postures suggesting dance movement, surrounded by equally elegant guests. Musicians play in a gallery at right. In the background is a view of Venice's lagoon. The two men in the doorway at left have been identified in the British Museum's online catalog as the commedia dell'arte characters Magnifico and his assistant Zanni. M.A. Katritzky's The art of commedia: a study in the commedia dell'arte 1560-1620 with special reference to the visual records (2006) identifies the first man as Pantalone.

Subjects

• Engravings
• Weddings > Italy > Venice > 16th century

Genre/Form

Engravings.

Note

• Trimmed to circular sheet. The British Museum's copy of this print, which is not trimmed, identifies the engraver: Joan Theodorus de Bry excud.
• Includes inscriptions in French and Latin, among them an epigram by Martial.
• Title derived from British Museum online catalog.

Biography (note)

• Print made by the engraver Johann Theodor de Bry after an engraving by Hendrik Goltzius, made in 1584 after a drawing by Dirck Barendsz. Barendsz, who was born and died in Amsterdam, worked for a time in Titian's workshop in Venice. This print reverses the image in Goltzius's engraving, so that the bridal couple faces left rather than right.

Call Number

*MGZFD Bry J Ven 1

OCLC

771303671

Author

Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?

Title

[The Venetian wedding] [graphic].

Imprint

[Frankfurt am Main, 1585 or later]

Biography

Print made by the engraver Johann Theodor de Bry after an engraving by Hendrik Goltzius, made in 1584 after a drawing by Dirck Barendsz. Barendsz, who was born and died in Amsterdam, worked for a time in Titian's workshop in Venice. This print reverses the image in Goltzius's engraving, so that the bridal couple faces left rather than right.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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Added Author

Barendsz, Dirck, 1534-1592. Artist

Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617. Associated name

Research Call Number

*MGZFD Bry J Ven 1