Landscape with Roger Liberating Angelica from the Dragon

Artist Cornelis Cort (Dutch, 1530 - 1578)

Artist After Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (Italian, 1488 - 1576)

Datemid-16th century

MediumEngraving

DimensionsOverall: 12 1/16 × 17 5/8 inches (30.63 × 44.78 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-966

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Exhibition History

An Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 10, 2009-May 16, 2010, no cat., as Landscape with Roger Liberating Angelica from the Dragon.

An Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 19, 2017-January 14, 2018, no cat., as Landscape with Roger Liberating Angelica from the Dragon.

Gallery Label

This subject is taken from the famous Italian Renaissance poem Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, an adventure story inspired by medieval romances. The rolling landscape is similar to the one in the drawing by Campagnola exhibited nearby. This is not surprising since Campagnola was a pupil of Titian, after whose composition the present engraving was made.

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by October 6, 1933;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Friedrich Wilhelm Hollstein, Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, vol. 5, Cornelisz. – Dou (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1951), no. 22 II/III.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 274, as Landscape with Roger Liberating Angelica from the Dragon, after Titian.

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