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AFTER TIZIANO VECELLIO, CALLED TITIAN (CIRCA 1488-1576), ANONYMOUS, NORTHERN ITALIAN, 16TH CENTURY
Portrait of Suleyman the Magnificent
woodcut, circa 1532-40, on four joined sheets of laid paper, without watermarks, a very good impression of this extremely rare, large print, trimmed to or just outside the subject, in very good condition
Block & Sheet 870 x 349 mm.
Provenance
Private German Collection; then by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Lamberto Donati, ‘Due immagini ignote di Solimano I’, in: Studi orientalistici in onore di Giorgio Levi Della Vida, Rome, 1956, pp. 219-233.
Peter Dreyer, Tizian und sein Kreis – 50 Venezianische Holzschnitte aus dem Berliner Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 1965, see p. 55, no. 28.
Otto Kurz, ‘A Gold Helmet made in Venice for Sultan Sulayman the Magnificent’, in: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1969, pp. 249-258, pp. 249-258.
Otto Kurz, Tiziano e la silografia veneziana del Cinquecento, Vicenza, 1976, pp. 121-122, n. 59.
David Rosand & Michelangelo Muraro, Titian and the Venetian Woodcut, Washington D.C., 1976, pp. 208-210, no. 48 & 49 (another impression illustrated).
Konrad Oberhuber, ‘Titian Woodcuts and Drawings: Some Problems’, in: Tiziano e Venezia, Vicenza, 1980, p. 526.
Gülru Necipoglu, ‘Süleyman the Magnificent and the representation of power in the context of Ottoman-Hapsburg-papal rivalry’, in: The Art Bulletin, New York, 1989, pp. 401-427, v.71, pp. 401-427, n. 3.
Julian Raby, ‘La Sérénissime et la Sublime Porte : les arts dans l’art diplomatique 1453-1600’, in: Claude Hocquet, Deborah Howard et al., Venise et l’Orient 828-1797, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (exh. cat.), 2006-2007, p. 111-112, no. 59 (the Metropolitan Museum impression illustrated).
Laura Aldovini, David Landau, Silvia Urbini, Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento, ISBN 978-88-96445-24-2 ALU.0276.1, http://archivi.cini.it:80/cini-web/storiaarte/detail/14111/stampa-14111.html