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Il Vasari fa mentione di quest’opera del Pordenone admirando singolarm<sup>te</sup>. il rilievo del Curtio e l’optica del Mercuro. (?) vedi a fol.791. (?)’ and in another hand: ‘disegno della faciata de Martino d’Anna in Venetia sopra il canal grando fatto dal Pordenone’","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Provenance: Padre Resta; Lord Somers (Lugt 2981; numbered K.60); Count Moritz von Fries (Lugt 2903); Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); S. Woodburn (sale, Christies, 6 June 1860, lot 619; bought for the Museum)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawing, The fresco decorations on the façade of the Palazzo d'Anna, Venice, by Pordenone, Italian School, pen and ink, early 16th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Ward Jackson, Peter, <u>Italian Drawings. Volume One: 14th - 16th century</u>, London, 1979, cat. 250, p. 124-125, illus.\n\nPORDENONE\r\nGiovanni Antonio de Lodesanis or de Sachis (c. 1484 – 1539)\r\n\r\n250\r\nThe fresco decorations of the façade of the Palazzo d’Anna, Venice\r\nInscribed in Padre Resta’s hand: ‘Quest’ opera diede il Grido al Pordenone de il maggior Pittore di Venezia. Il Vasari fa mentione di quest’opera del Pordenone admirando singolarm<sup>te</sup>. il rilievo del Curtio e l’optica del Mercuro. (?) vedi a fol.791. (?)’ and in another hand: ‘disegno della faciata de Martino d’Anna in Venetia sopra il canal grando fatto dal Pordenone’\r\nPen and ink\r\n16 ¼ x 22 (412 x 559)\t\t\t\t\t2306\r\nPROVENANCE Padre Resta; Lord Somers (Lugt 2981; numbered K.60); Count Moritz von Fries (Lugt 2903); Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); S, Woodburn (sale, Christie, 6 june 1860, lot 619; bought for the Museum)\r\n\r\nLITERATURE D. von Hadeln, ‘A drawing after an important lost work by Pordenone’ in <i>The Burlington Magazine</i>, 44, 1924, p.149; L. Foscari, <i>Affreschi esterni a Venezia</i>, Milan, 1936, p.57; E. Tietze-Conrat, ‘Decorative paintings of the Venetian Renaissance reconstructed from drawings’ in the <i>Art Quarterly</i>, Detroit Institute of Arts, 3, 1940, pp. 26-31 and fig. 11; Fiocco, Pordenone, pp.74-5 and pl. 136, wrongly stated to be in British Museum; Tietze and Tieze-Conrat, no. A.1332; A.E. Popham, <i>Old master drawings from Chatsworth. A loan exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington</i>, 1962, p.27; Catalogue of the Exhibition of drawings entitled <i>Le xvi<sup>e</sup> Siecle Europeen</i>,<i> Dessins du Louvre</i>, 1965, p.47, no. 99; Marilyn Caldwell in the <i>Bulletin of the North Carolina Museum of Art</i>, 8, no.1, 1968, pp.27 – 33 (on a Boulle bronze based on Pordenone’s figure of Time)\r\n\nExcept for Foscari the scholars mentioned take it for granted that the drawing is a copy, but it may be an original sketch design by Pordenone himself; neither the quality nor the handling is inconsistent with this suggestion. Whether by Pordenone himself or a copyist, the drawing is probably the only extant record of the once celebrated fresco cycle.\r\nMrs Ruth Rubinstein of the Warburg Institute, London, has helped to establish the inonography, as follows: \n<i>Top row</i> Putto - Reclining winged female nude with trumpet, probably Fame - Satyr family - Playing putti - Time holding a verge escapement; the subject also occurs in a chiaroscuro woodcut by Ugo da Carpi, published by Dr and Mrs Tietze in <i>The Burlington Magazine</i>, 74, 1939, p. 91. A drawing in the Duke of Devonshire (Catalogue no. 234), iscribed 'Pourdenon' may be a design for the woodcut. On the symbolism of the verge escapement see J.M. Hurt III, in the <i>Bulletin of the North Carolina Museum of Art</i>, 10, no. 3, 1971, pp. 17-23, where the Chatsworth drawing is illustrated. - Putto.\r\n<i>Middle row</i> Nude figure personifying Painting - Mercury directing Odysseus (and Circe) to a herb called Moly - Nude figure personifying Metalwork - Stanfing figure - Playing putti - Standing figure - Nude figure leaning on a sphere, personifying Geometry - Cybele in a chariot drawn by a pair of lions, with a sacrifice below, possibly the sacrifice of Iphigenia - Figure with a lyre, personifying Music.\r\n<i>Bottom row</i> A cavalry fight, possibly Mettus Curtius attacked by the ROmans after the Rape of the Sabines: a drawing by Pordenone of the same subject is in the Louvre (inv. no. 5429; reproduced in E. Tietze-Conrat's artricle in the <i>Art Quarterly</i>, fig. 8) - Proserpina changing Ascalaphus into an owl and Pluto carrying off Proserpina - Mettus Curtius on horseback leaping into the abyss: this scene is reproduced in a chiaroscuro woodcut attributed by Campbell Dodgson to a follower of Ugo da Carpi, possibly Antonio Fantuzzi of Trent or Giuseppe Nicola Vicentino (see articles by Dodgson in <i>The Burlington Magazine</i>, 37, 1920, p. 61 and by L. 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