Dido and Lucretia: Raphael's Designs and Marcantonio's Engravings

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作者：

Joannides, Paul ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Univ Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, England

来源：

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library | 2016年 / 92卷 / 02期

关键词：

Vasari; Raphael; Marcantonio Raimondi; Lucretia; Dido; Polidoro da Caravaggio; suicide; the muses; digital technology and the study of prints;

D O I：

10.7227/BJRL.92.2.5

中图分类号：

C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

Vasari said that Marcantonio Raimondi's first engraving after a design by Raphael was the Suicide of Lucretia, but he most likely confused it with the similar but much smaller Suicide of Dido, also engraved by Marcantonio. Following the Dido's success Raphael no doubt wished Lucretia to be larger and bolder. The two figures were probably recycled from a group of dancers, perhaps the Muses, projected for a mural decoration; a drawing by Raphael adapted to Lucretia is precisely in the style of his Parnassus studies The hypothesis that Dido and Lucretia were initially conceived as dancers is supported by a montage of the two figures silhouetted and by a glance at contemporary representations of dancing Muses.

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