Pan

Fialetti, Odoardo (1573-1638)

Pordenone (1483/1484-1539) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1614

Height:

14.9 cm  (5 7/8 in.)

Width:

20.6 cm  (8 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

etching

Place of creation:

Venezia (Italia)

Additional titles

Description

Pan is seated in right profile on a plinth next to a wall while gazing up into the sky over his left shoulder. He is resting his left forearm on his right knee and holding pan pipes in his left hand. His right hand placed to the right behind him supports his weight. His ears point back, and his head is covered with short hair whose forelocks curl upward. He has a beard, mustache, and a powerfully muscled torso. His thighs are covered with long, shaggy hair, ending in thin legs with hooves. Small plants are growing out of cracks and from the top of the wall behind him, and large cumulus clouds fill the sky. The plinth has the initials "ALPI" in the upper left corner and Fialetti's monogram in the lower left below it. Handwritten on the plinth in black ink: " on the backside of this print was wrote / Gio. Anto. Regillo Pordedone a Bardentone o Licinio. Scuola Veneziano. / A E. P. [illegible]" The scene fits in a rectangular border.

Iconclass

92L5
(story of) Pan

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Panpipe [4024]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

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) 406, cat. 60.4. ISBN: 9788836630882.

Walters, Laura M. "Odoardo Fialetti (1573–c. 1638): The interrelation of Venetian art and anatomy and his importance for England," (Ph.D. diss., University of St. Andrews, 2009) 93–96.

Bury, Michael, and Antony Griffiths. The print in Italy, 1550-1620 (London: British Museum Press, 2001) 194, 132/5. ISBN: 9780714126296.

Massari, Stefania, and Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò. Tra mito e allegoria:
immagini a stampa nel '500 e '600 (Rome: Istituto nazionale per la grafica, 1989) 480, 192.

Cohen, Charles. "Pordenone's painted facade on the Palazzo Tinghi in Udine", Burlington Magazine 116 (August 1974) 445–57.

Huber, Michel. Manuel des curieux et des amateurs de l'art, contenant une notice abrégée des principaux graveurs, et un catalogue raisonné de leurs meilleurs ouvrages, depuis le commencement de la gravure jusques à nos jours: les artistes rangés par ordre chronologique, et divisés par école (Paris: chez Fuchs, 1800) v. 3, 273, no. 5.

Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. Nouv. ed. (Leipzig: J.A. Barth, 1870) v. 17, 271, no. 22.

RIdIM record id

5444