Fantastic Art Dada Surrealism edited by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. essays by Georges Huguet MoMAExh_0055_MasterChecklist The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1936 Fantastic art: 15th and 16th centuries ARCIMBOLDO, Giuseppe. Italian pain- BOSCH (van AEKEN) , Hieronymus. ter and theatrical designer.Born Milan, c. Dutch painter and designer for engravings. 1530. Court painter to the Austrian Em- Born c. 1460 [?]; active at '8 Hertogen- perors, Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, Ru- bosch in Holland, 1488-1512. Inflnenced dolfII. Specialized in compositeheads and by Geertgen tot Sint J ans and hy the Mas- allegorical figures made up of flowers, ter of the Virgo inter Virgines. Painter fruits, and animals: Four Elements; Four of diabolical visions and hell. Influenced Seasons. Ennobled, 1591. Died Milan, 1593. Brueghel who took over many of his sub- _- -c-, jects. Many drawings of fantastic figures t:thotog!"aphs attributed to him are engravingsafter his ..L..--- l. Bust composed of animals work but probably not by his own hand . ........-2. Fire Died '8 Hertogenbosch, 1516. "-'3. Water *10. Study for a Temptation of St. An· c-: 4. Winter thony, ink, 8 x 10% inches 0'*5. Summer, 1563 Lent by the Louvre Museum, Paris MoMAExh_0055_MasterChecklist Original paintings in the Picture Gal- 11. Small fishes are bait for large fishes lery, Vienna (Grandibus exigui sunt pisces pis- cibus esca), engraved by Peter Hrue- ARCIMBOLDO, traditiou of ghel the elder, 1557 6. Landscape-head (donble image) Lent anonymously Oil on pane], 12Y2x 1614 inches Note: probably either a North Ital- Pbotograp ian or an Austrian painting of theS:f2:- e Temptation of St. Anthony 16th century Original painting in the Lisbon Mu- Lent anonymously eeum @ot~;h> BALDUNG, Hans, called GRIEN. Oer- man painter and graphic artist. Born Wey- v13. The Capital Sins ersheim (Alsace), c. 1480. Influenced by Original painting in the Gallery of Durer. Court painter to Bishop of Struss- the Escorial, Spain burg, and worked at Freiburg under pat. *14. The Temptation of Saint Anthony, ronage of Margrave Christoph von Baden. attributed to Bosch Many allegorical subjects and portraits, Oil on panel, 15% x 9% inches principally in woodcuts. Died Strassburg, Lent by' the William Rockhill Nelson 1545. Gallery of Art, KansasCity, Missouri *7. Bewitched groom, woodcut Lent by W. G. Russell Allen, Boston BOSCH, School of Reproduced from a facsimile *15. Descent into hell 8. Seven horses fighting in a wood, Oil on panel, 21 x 46 inches woodcut, 1534 Lent by The Metropolitan Museum Lent hy the Museum of Fine Arts, of Art, New York Boston BRUEGHEL, Peter, the cider. Flemish 9. Witches' sabbath, woodcut painter and graphic artist. Born Brueghel Lent bv W. G. Russell Alleu, Boston c. 1525-1530. Pupil of Peter Koeck van 246 'I Aalst and Hieronymus Cock.Influenced in FLO RlS, Cornelis II (de VRlENDT), subject matter by Bosch. Although chiefly Flemish sculptor, architect and designer a painter of scenes from peasant life, h~ of ornamental engravings. Born Antwerp, produced all manner of fantastic and dia- 1514. Traveled in Italy and introduced bolical etchings and drawings. Died Brus- Roman grotesque style into The Nether- sels, c. 1570. Innds.Active as architect andsculptorfrom 1549 on. Died Antwerp, 1579. 16. Avarice, engraving Lent anonymously 22-24. Three ornamental designs, en- . graved by Corneille 17. Jlfascarade d'Ourson et de JIltlen- Lent by Miss Janice Loeb,Paris tin, woodcut Taken from Brueghel'e painting, GIOVANNI DI PAOLO Dl GRAZIA. Combat of Carnival and Lent Italian painter and illuminator. Born Lent by \V. G. Russell Allen, Boston Siena, 1403 [? J. Assimilated wide variety of styles,including elements of Byzantine DURER,Albrecht. Germau painter, graph. art, Duccio, Simone Martini, Barna, and io artist, illustrator and writer on art Gentile da Fahriano. Signed and dated theory. Born Nuremberg, 1471. Occupied Crucifixion, 1440, now in SienaAcademy. chiefly as painter until 1510, after that de- Executed,probably for the church of San voted himselfMoMAExh_0055_MasterChecklist to graphic arts, of which he Domenico in 1445, a Last Judgment; a was probably the greatest master of his fragment of another painting of the same age. Died Nuremberg, 1528. subject, representing Paradise, is in The 18. The Beast with Seven Heads and . Metropolitan Museum, New York. Cu.lmi- the Beast with Lamb's Horns, wood- nation of lyrical and romantic tendencies cut from The Apocalypse, 1498 in six scenesfrom life of John the Baptist, Lent by W. G. Russell Allen, Boston The Art Institute of Chicago.Died Siena, 1482. 19. The Whore of Babylon, woodcut from The Apocalypse, 1498 '25. Shipwreck-Miracle of St. Nicholas Lent by W. G. Russell Allen, Boston of Bari, c. 1450 Tempera on panel, 20% x 16% inches '20. Man in despair, etching on iron, Lent through the courtesy of th~ 1516 Trustee of the Johnson Collection, Lent by thc Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Boston GIOVANNI DA UDINE. Umbrian mnral FINE, Oronce. French mathematician and and easel painter. Born, 1487. Pupil of astronomer. Born 1494. Professor of math- Giorgione and Raphael. Designer of all ematics and architecture, Royal College, types of ornamental decoration. Died Paris. Designed woodcuts for his own and Rome, 1564. others' books on these subjects.Died, 1555. 26. Dragon, pen drawing attributed to AI. Woodcut from Raison d'Architecture Giovanni da Udine. Antique Extraicte de Victruve, et Lent by the Fogg Art Museum,Cam- aultres Architectures, by Diego de bridge, Loeser Collection Sagredo, Paris, Simon de Colinee, c. 1530 GOUJON, Jean. French sculptor and arch- Q.tigj,ndl in The, Metr~itan.j\Ju. itect. Born, 1515. Chief of the group of eeum of Art, New~ artistswho designed and executedthe dec- 247 ,I orations of the palace of Fontainebleau. ~5. The encounter Died, 1572. {. Q!'iginili in The Metropolitan Mu- eeum of Art, New York "'27-30. Fourwoodcuts, attributed to Con- jon, from Orus Apollo de Aegy pte de JAMNITZER, Wenzel. Austrian goldsmith La Signification des Notes Hierogly- and engraver. Born Vienna, 1508. \Vorked phiques des Aegyptiens, Paris, Ker- in Nuremberg for Emperor Charles V and vel', 1543. Lent by William 1\1. Ivins, others. Died, 1585. Jr., New York ~36. Etching from Perspectiva Corporum HOLBEIN, Hans, the younger. Foremost Reguloriurn, Nuremberg, 1568 German portrait painter of the 16th cen- Q!'igiru;\l in The Metropohtan 1\1u- tury. Born Augeburg, 1497. "1orked prin- seum of Art, New York cipally in Switzerland and England, where he became painter to Henry VIII. Died, LEONARDO DA VINCI. Italian artist, 1543. musician, engineer, mathematician and scientist. Born near Florence, 1452. Died cJilotOgl'aiV Chateau de Cloux, France, 1519. /31. Two Ambassadors "'37-38. \VOOdcut8 after designs by Leo- Note: the bizarrely foreshortened uardo da Vinci hom Divina Propor- MoMAExh_0055_MasterChecklist skull hanging in mid-air between the tione, by Luca Pacioli (da Borgo S. two figures is the most famous ex- Sepo lcro }, Venice, Paganinus de Pa- ample of extremejy distorted per- ganinis, June 1, 1509 spective. The skull has sometimes Lent by Philip Hofer, New York been considered an emblematic sig- nature derived from Holbein's name :MUSI, Agostino del, called Agostino "hollow bone". VENEZIANO. Italian engraver. Born Original painting in the National Venice, c. 1490; worked there under in- Gallery, London fluence of Giulio Campagnola, J acopo de' Barberi and Durer. Rome, 1516, as one of HUYS~ Peter. Flemish painter and en- chief pupils of Marcantonio. Dated w01'k8, graver. Active in Antwerp, 1545-77. Signed 1509-36.Engravings after Raphael, Giulio and dated paintings reveal him as follower Romano, Baccio Bandinelli. Famous for of Hieronymus Bosch and Jan Massys: grotesques mingl iug original antique mo- Temptation of St. Anthony, 1547; Hell, tives with those of Raphael's school. Prado, j\1adrid, 1570. *39. The carcass, engraving *32. Temptation of St. Anthony Note: sometimes Ialsely attributed Oil on pane], 43 x 49 inches to Marcantonio. This engraving has Lent by The Metropolitan Museum been considered an allegory of ma- of Art, New York laria. Lent anonymously. JAMNITZER, Christopher. Flemish gold- smith and engraver. Born Nuremberg, PENNI, Luca, Italian follower of Raphael. 1563. In 1600 published a set of grotesque Born Florence, end of 15th century. Died, subjects. Died, 1618. 1556. Etchings from Neuw Grottessken Buch, '40. The dream of Raphael or The mel- Nuremberg, 1610 ancholy of :l\1ichelangelo~ after a design attributed to Luca Penni, en- Tournament v"'33. graved by Giorgio Gbisi J 34. Grotesque design Lent by W. G. Russell Allen, Boston 248 RICHIER, Ligier. French sculptor, Born Sculptors and Goldsmiths, printed 1540. St. Mihiel, 1506. Studied with Michel- Died,1556. angelo. Died, 1572. P]rotogr~q)hs J4a. Thewonder-grapesofAlbersweiler ~ J (Die Wundertraube von Alberswei-l- V41. Figure from the tomb of Rene de er}, woodcut, 1542 Chalous, Bar-le-Duc Note: These grapes grewa red beard. Q!igin.aL in The Metropolitan Th-fu- SCHONGAUER, Martin. Foremost Ger- seum of Art, New York man engraver of the 15th century. Born Colmar, c. 1445. Influenced by Rogel' van Lombard School, 15th century del' \~Teyden. Died Colmar, c. 1489. 45. Emblematic symbols, ink: 011 parch. ment, partly pricked for transfer 42. The Temptation of St. Anthony, Note: probably studies for l mprese engraving (personal heraldic devices) for Duke Lent hy W. G. Russell Allen, Boston Guglielmo II of Moufen-ato Lent by the Fogg Art Museum, Cam- SCHON, Erhard. German painter, bridge, Loeser Collection draughtsman and engraver. Born, c. 1500. Earliest dated work, 1515. Pupil or imita- MoMAExh_0055_MasterChecklist North Italian School, 15th century tor of Durer. Worked at Nuremberg. Died *46. Fall of Phaeton after 1550. Oil on panel, 1714 x 20%inches L--43. The devfl-wlth bagpipes, woodcut Lent by the Wadsworth Atheneum, Original in The Metropolitan Thill- Hartford scum of Art, New York French School [?], 16th century V 43a.