ID: 700000995 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000995	Record Type: Movable Work

[Assumption of the Virgin] (etching (print); Giovanni Battista Vanni (Italian painter and printmaker, 159...; Published: 1642; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 561378; accession number: 2002.PR.3**)

Note: Dedication in banderole in lower left of plate [1]: All Ill:o Sig:r Sc Pron mio col: / Il Sig:r Marc:e Lorenzo Guicciarini ... / ... Di Firenze li 2 Febb:o M.D.C.XXXXII Humilisso & Obbligat.mo Ser:rre Gio: Bta Vanni; Title from: Bellini; The suite of prints documents Correggio's frescoes of the Assumption of the Virgin in the Duomo of Parma. The etchings give detailed representations of the attitudes, gestures and forms of Correggio's figures: notably the Virgin Mary and Eve depicted amidst angels in the cupola (prints [1-3]), the apostles and ephebes that decorate the drum of the dome (prints [4-11]), and the patron saints of Parma, Bishop Hilary of Poitiers, Bernard, John the Baptist and the Apostle Thomas, painted in the squinches (prints [12-15]); The suite is composed of prints [1-3] pasted together, forming a single sheet (48.2 x 148 cm.), and of loose prints [4-15] (ca. 48 x 58.5 cm. or smaller). Each plate has binding holes along left edge and is enlarged by pasted paper borders. Watermarks throughout suite in paper borders. Lines of indentation visible on verso of prints. Publication: 1642.

Titles:

[Assumption of the Virgin] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

[Assumption of the Virgin]; [graphic]. (C,U,English,,)

Catalog Level: suite

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

reproductive print [300041569]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works))

print (visual work) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1642

Creator Display:

Giovanni Battista Vanni (Italian painter and printmaker, 1599-1660) [preferred,GRISC]

Vanni, Giovanni Battista (Italian painter and printmaker, 1599-1660) [500022560]

Correggio, Antonio da (Italian painter, ca. 1489-1534) [500006208]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 561378; accession number: 2002.PR.3**

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 15 prints: etching, b&w

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: image: 48.8 x 40.8 cm, on sheet: 58.4 x 43.3 cm or smaller, enlarged by paper borders to 58.4 x 47.9 cm or smaller

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Mary, Blessed Virgin [901000032]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Assumption of the Virgin Mary [901001007]
	.....((Life of the Virgin Mary, New Testament narratives, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Provenance: rumbl ; purchase

Inscriptions: Dedication in banderole in lower left of plate [1]: All Ill:o Sig:r Sc Pron mio col: / Il Sig:r Marc:e Lorenzo Guicciarini ... / ... Di Firenze li 2 Febb:o M.D.C.XXXXII Humilisso & Obbligat.mo Ser:rre Gio: Bta Vanni.

State: The suite is printed from a state that is not documented by Bartsch or in subsequent literature.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
[Assumption of the Virgin]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 561378
[Assumption of the Virgin]; [graphic].	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Bartsch, Le peintre graveur (1803-1821) v. XX, no. 1-15

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)