Night

Night

RP-P-2016-687-2

• : Lugt 2228
• : Lugt 2760

Until recently, this engraving was completely unknown. On the basis of style and technique it can be attributed to the Venetian artist Battista Franco. In his early years Franco made numerous drawings after sculptures by Michelangelo, including his Four Times of the Day in the San Lorenzo Church in Florence. The printmaker added a sleeping boy to Michelangelo’s representation of Night.

cat. veiling Berlijn, 26-5-2016, nr. 5121

c. 1550 - c. 1570

gravure

147 mm x 255 mm

Prent naar het beeld van Michelangelo op het grafmonument van Giuliano de Medici in de San Lorenzo te Florence.

Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Public domain

• cat. veiling Berlijn, 26-5-2016, nr. 5121
• Raphael Rosenberg, 'Michelangelo's New Sacruisty and Vecchietti's Criticism of the Missing Attributes of the Times of the Day', in Stephan Koja en Claudia Kryza-Gersch red. Shadows of Time : Giambologna, Michelangelo and the Medici Chapel, Dresden 2018, p. 50, fig. 1.

To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200655569