![]() ![]() ![]() soldaten zen compagnen zij naemen in groete stock ghepunt in haert ghebrant in staken hem de hooghe ut / seclopus druch ock voor zen … in pin appel stam (?)ħ circes ghaf te drinken ulisse met den scale en tasten hem met de setter hem te doen veranderen in beste gheleck zij ghedaen adde an’ (the following one or two lines are missing). quatro compagnien van / ulisse, ciclopis wael weesende ghonk legghen slapen in een groete spelonka daer i de gheeten in pecoren hielden ulisse slande ghaede / dat i in slaep waes ghonck met 5. polifemus ciclopis - i waes in afgriselecke groote ruese met een hooghe allene in zen voerhoft adde gheeten 4. ![]() Equally remarkable are the explanatory texts in Stradanus’ own words in Flemish vernacular below the drawings of Ulysses and Polyphemus and Ulysses and Circe they start with a number and a short title of the scene:Ĥ. 4 The drawing for the frontispiece is signed on the open book in the lower right corner ‘Ioannes / Stradanus’ and is inscribed below in the centre ‘Navighatione di Ulisse da Lui narate Alla cenna / del Re Alcinoo in corfu / Cavata da Homero’. The artist himself added explanatory texts in Flemish below the drawings, some of which were cut off by a later owner, which explains why these sheets are approximately 2 cm smaller in height. The surviving drawings share the same technical characteristics: similar dimensions and the remarkable blue washes with white highlights over pen in brown ink. It was acquired by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam in order to strengthen the group of three drawings that had been in the collection since the museum’s foundation in 1849. MB 2007/T 1), appeared on the art market in 2007. 2 While the present whereabouts of one drawing, Ulysses and Scylla, which disappeared during World War II, is unknown, a previously unknown seventh drawing, Ulysses and Polyphemus (inv. Baroni Vannucci included the six drawings then known in her monograph on Stradanus published in 1997. Unfortunately, this undocumented series of drawings is no longer complete. The draughtsman took into account the fact that the engraved composition would appear in mirror image when printed and the figures, left-handed in the drawing, would turn out to be right-handed, as required, in the print. The fact that they were meant to be engraved is clear from the orientation of the main characters. These drawings are either designs for printed illustrations in an edition of Homer planned by Stradanus’ Florentine friend, the writer Luigi Alamanni, not completed due the latter’s death in 1603, 1 or designs for a series of prints that were never engraved and published. For seven years he was detained by the beautiful sea-nymph Calypso until Zeus, the supreme ruler of the Olympic gods, decided that he should be released and allowed to continue his journey, though not without first overcoming several obstacles. After a war that had lasted ten years, it took him another ten years to travel home. They illustrate the eventful journey of the famous Greek leader Ulysses, king of Ithaca, after the sack of Troy. Johannes Stradanus, Four drawings from the Odyssey seriesĭuring the last years of his life Stradanus made a series of highly finished drawings representing the adventures of Ulysses as described by Homer in his famous epic, the Odyssey. Netherlandish Drawings of the 15th and 16th Centuries.Ĭat. Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014) Vroege Nederlandse tekeningen - Van Bosch tot Bloemaert (deel 3) (2015)īosch to Bloemaert. 59.3ĭe Collectie Twee - wissel VI, Prenten & Tekeningen (2010) Rotterdam 2010 (coll 2 kw 6) Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. Boijmans (1767-1847), Utrecht bequeathed to the City of Rotterdam, 1847 in the museum since its foundation, 1849 Roberts, A dictionary of Michaelangelo's watermarks, Milan 1988, pp. The same type of watermark is present in drawings by Michelangelo from 1508-15 (J. 30mm, on P4 from below, difficult to distinguish, only visible by raking light on the reverse vV, 6P), similar to Briquet 13884-13892 (Rome 1501-35, Naples 1501-28, Florence 1507-09, Pistoia 1523, a.o.). 'ioan stradanus' (at lower centre, in pen and brown ink) ![]() Uit de nalatenschap van / from the estate of: F.J.O. ![]()
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