Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2023.

Tityus (after Michaelangelo)

Publisher Antonio Salamanca (Italian, 1500 - 1562)

CultureFrench

Date1540-1550

MediumEngraving

InscribedAn inscription below reads “TITIUS GIGAS WLTURE DIVERSESQ[UE] PENIS LASEATUS,” ”

Markingson the verso is written “From the Joshua Reynolds Collection,/ mark on the former mounting.

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2023.16.1

Not on view

DescriptionThe Beatrizet engraving after Michelangelo shows an eagle landing on a giant nude man chained to a rock, while a classical Roman temple burns in the background. An inscription below reads “TITIUS GIGAS WLTURE DIVERSESQ[UE] PENIS LASEATUS,” and o
ProvenanceSir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), London (without mark, according to the pencil inscription on the verso); Sotheby’s, London, November 8, 2001, lot 42 to Eric G. Stanley (1913–2018), Oxford, to C.G. Boerner to CMA Published ReferencesStefania Massari and Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodina, Tra mito e allegoria: immagini a stampa nel ‘500 a ‘600 (Rome, 1989), no. 89. Adam Bartsch, Le Peintre Graveur 15 (Vienna, 1813), 259–60, no. 39.