Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses (Version B)

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Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses (Version B)

Italy, c. 1520-1527
Prints; woodcuts
Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 8 7/8 in. (29.21 × 22.54 cm) Image: 11 1/2 × 8 7/8 in. (29.21 × 22.54 cm)
Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest (M.88.91.363)
Prints and Drawings
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Takahatake, Naoko. The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2018.
  • Bartsch, Adam von. The Illustrated Bartsch. New York: Abaris Books, 1978.
  • Takahatake, Naoko. The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2018.
  • Bartsch, Adam von. The Illustrated Bartsch. New York: Abaris Books, 1978.
  • Morenus, Linda Stiber, Charlotte W. Eng, Naoko Takahatake, and Diana C. Rambaldi. "16th- and 17th-century Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts: Instrumental Analysis, Degradation, and Conservation." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 54, no.4 (2015): 238-271. 
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