Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Agostino Carracci - Drawing-Book Pattern-Prints (part I)

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Resurrecting figure from Michelangelo's Last Judgment
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Sample pages from "a series of 81 prints described by Bartsch that form part of a pattern book designed by Agostino Carracci and engraved by Luca Ciamberlano and Francesco Brizio.  Many prints carry Ciamberlano's monogram and others 'PSF' indicating the name of the engraver and publisher Pietro Stefanoni who probably published this series.  It is difficult to ascertain the original sequence of the prints, as numbers and initials have been burnished out and/or altered on many of the British Museum impressions.  Brizio's name does not occur on the prints like Ciamberlano's does.  In cases where there is no monogram LC, the print has been attributed to him for want of better evidence."

 curator's notes from the British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Study of torso
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Studies of torsos, male and female
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Studies of legs, after Michelangelo
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Studies of profiles
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Study of old man in profile
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Studies of skull
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Study of girl looking down
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Study of girl's head
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Studies of eyes
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Studies of eyes
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Studies of noses, mouths, eyes
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Studies of noses, mouths, chins
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum

Agostino Carracci (designer)
Drawing-Book Pattern-Print
Studies of noses, mouths, chins
ca. 1600-1630
engraving by Luca Ciamberlano
British Museum