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| Production People Nicolas Beatrizet (Print made by)  Beatrizet, Nicolas b Thionville, 1507, or Lunaville, 1515; d Rome, c. 1565 Giorgio Ghisi (Copy after) Ghisi, Giorgio b Mantua, 1520; d Mantua, 15 Dec 1582 Michelangelo (After) Michelangelo (Buonarroti) [Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni] b Caprese, ?6 March 1475; d Rome, 18 Feb 1564 Antonio Lafréry (Published by) Lafréry, Antoine [Lafreri, Antonio] b Orgelet, Jura, 1512; d Rome, 20 July 1577 Philippe Thomassin (Published by) Thomassin, Philippe b Troyes, 1562; d Rome, 12 May 1622 Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (Published by) Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi [Rubeis de'] b 1627; d 1691 Title / Description The Last Judgement, plate A Date 1562 Technique engraving Material paper Dimensions 289 x 531 mm (platemark (irregular)) Inscriptions Lettered lower left: 'A', inscribed with publishers' addresses: 'ANT LAFRERII' and below: 'NUNC PHILIPPI THOMASSINI FORMIS MDCXX' and below: 'et nuc Io. Iacob. de Rubeis Formis Romae ad Templ. Sa. Ma. de Pace cum Priuil. Sum Pont', and numbered in pen and brown ink: '9' State fifth state of five Watermark visible, height: 89 mm, width: 106 mm Provenance Széchényi Library Budapest (not in Lugt) References Bartsch XV.257.37 Adam Bartsch, Le peintre-graveur, vols. 21, Vienna 1803-21 Bianchi 1981, pp. 78-79 (fourth state of four) Silvia Bianchi, 'Contributi per l'opera incisa di Nicolas Beatrizet,' Rassegna di studi e di notizie IX (1981), pp. 47-145. Bianchi 2003–4, no. 30 (fifth state of five) Silvia Bianchi, 'Catalogo dell'opera incisa di Nicola Beatrizet,' Grafica d'arte 14 (2003) 54, pp. 3-12; 14 (2003) 55, pp. 3-12; 14 (2003) 56, pp. 3-12; 15 (2004), 57, pp. 3-13 Comment The prints reproduce the fresco before Daniele da Volterra's intervention of covering the nude parts of the figures. Beatrizet copied with some changes the series by Giorgio Ghisi (Bartsch XV.395.25). Although the plate with Charon's Boat is dated 1562, the ten plates of which the set is made up were engraved over a period of time in the 1550s, see Michael Bury, Niccolo della Casa's Last Judgement Dissected, Print Quarterly 27 (2010), pp. 3-10. The Christ in Judgement carries full publishing details and may have been the first plate undertaken and issued perhaps as a single-sheet print. Antonio Lafréry's address remained in place during subsequent later publications. Bury discovered that in the impression of the Courtauld Institute, de' Rossi's publisher's address was scratched out to disguise the impression's later date. Bianchi 2003-4 mentions that one of the plates in the Calcografia, Rome bears Giovanni Orlandi's publisher's address but does not list a corresponding sixth state. Bianchi 1981 claims that to some impressions of the series a portrait of Michelangelo was added later, not by Beatrizet. In the second half of the sixteenth century, Giovanni Battista Cavalieri (1567) and Martino Rota (1569) also reproduced the fresco. Inventory Number 67157 Classification Prints: Italian: 16th century: Unmounted |
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