Giovanni Alto, Antiquarian
Francesco Villamena, Italian, 1564/66 - 1624
1623
Engraving with red and black chalk on laid paper
working proof
Sheet: 15 1/16 × 20 5/8 in. (38.3 × 52.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund and the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund
PR.997.29.2
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Text across bottom in red chalk and on capital base in black chalk.
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
REL 30, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Spring 2013
REL 30, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Spring 2013
ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Winter 2012
REL 60, Reformations: Protestant and Catholic, Catherine Randall, Fall 2013
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
ARTH 13, Rome: The Eternal City, Nicola Camerlenghi, Summer 2014
ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Winter 2015
REL 30.1, Sacred Cities: Rome, Christopher MacEvitt, Winter 2019
ITAL 23, 17th and 18th Century Italian Literature, Nancy Canepa, Spring 2022
ITAL 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen, Winter 2023
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 17-July 21, 2019.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 1, 2008.
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
Remembrance of Things Past: Prints and Photographs from the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-September 3, 2000.
The Simple Art: Printed Images in an Age of Magnificence, The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, September 6-October 18, 2006; Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, November 9-December 10, 2006.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber, "Survival and Revival of the Classical Tradition: Antiquity in Rome from the Baroque Era to the Age of Enlightenment." In T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, pp. 45-46, ill. p. 45, listed p.72.
T. Barton Thurber, "Multiple personalities in Francesco Villamena's portrait print of Giovanni Alto dedicated to Cassiano dal Pozzo", Word & Image, A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, Volume 19, Numbers 1 & 2, January-June 2003, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Limited, 2003, pp. 100-114, ill, p. 105.
Patricia Emison, The Simple Art: Printed Images in an Age of Magnificence, Durham, New Hampshire: The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, 2006, no. 56, p.84-85.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p.135, ill., no. 77.
Provenance
Hill-Stone, Inc. New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
Nagler 8; Kuhn-Hattenhauer, p. 137; Le Blanc 2
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