Pan

Vicentino, Niccolò (active ca. 1540-1550) (attributed to)

Parmigianino (1503-1540) (after a work of)

Carpi, Ugo da (active 1502-1532) (formerly attributed to)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

ca. 1540-1550

Height:

18.7 cm  (7 3/8 in.)

Width:

12.5 cm  (4 15/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks

Place of creation:

Italia

Description

Pan reaches down with his right hand to draw Syrinx, a wood nymph transformed into river reeds, from the river. He steadies himself with his left hand on a large rock and his left foot on another rock on the bank of the river. A tree is in the background. The image is outlined by an oval set on a rectangle.

Iconclass

97BB5
Syrinx changed into a reed: while fleeing from Pan, the nymph Syrinx is changed into reed by her sisters, the Naiads (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 705)
92L53
(story of) Pan - most important deeds
48CC7353
panpipes - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Panpipe [4024]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Takahatake, Naoko, Jonathan Bober, Jamie Gabbarelli, Antony Griffiths, Peter Parshall, and Linda Stiber Morenus. The chiaroscuro woodcut in Renaissance Italy (Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018) 136–39. ISBN: 9783791357393.

Barryte, Bernard. Myth, allegory, and faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of mannerist prints (Stanford, CA: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2015) app. 229. ISBN: 9788836630882.

Kahn-Rossi, Manuela, ed. Ugo da Carpi, l'opera incisa: xilografie e chiaroscuri da Tiziano, Raffaello e Parmigianino ([Carpi]: Città di Carpi, 2009) 156–57.

Gnann, Achim. Parmigianino: Die Zeichnungen (Petersberg: Imhof, 2008) 157. ISBN: 9783865681706.

Parmigianino: catalogo completo dei dipinti. Introduction by Mario Di Giampaolo and catalog by Elisabetta Fadda (Santarcangelo di Romagna: Idea Libri, 2003) 77, 88, no. 2.3.37. ISBN: 9788870828221.

Parmigianino e il manierismo europeo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, ed. by Lucia Fornari Schianchi. Arte. Dal Medioevo al Rinascimento. Biblioteca d'arte, 3 (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana, 2002) 289. ISBN: 9788882154578.

Oberhuber, Konrad, and Achim Gnann, eds. Roma e lo stile classico di Raffaello: 1515-1527 (Milano: Electa, 1999) 163. ISBN: 9788843568512.

Rodari, Florian and Chantal Oederlin. Dieux et héros: 7 avril-1er octobre 1978, Cabinet des estampes, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genève (Genève: Musée d'art et d'histoire, 1978) no. 34.

Servolini, Luigi. Ugo da Carpi: i chiaroscuri e le altre opere (Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1977) no. 33.

Mayor, A. Hyatt and Anthony Blunt, eds. Le Peintre graveur illustre. Vol. 1, Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts. ed. by Caroline Karpinski (University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971) no. 123.24.

Pittaluga, Mary. L'incisione italiana nel cinquecento: Duecento ottantanove figure e tavole (Milano: U. Hoepli, 1930) 239.

RIdIM record id

5441