1670
ink
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Signorum Veterum Icones is a 1670 ink by Jan de Bisschop, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Jan de Bisschop made 100 etched prints of classical sculptures in the 1660s–70s. These prints show statues from Dutch and Italian collections, valued for their anatomy and poses. Artists studied these works to learn from the statues’ drapes and forms. De Bisschop captured them from different angles so others could too. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection next.
The title page of Jan de Bisschop’s 1670 suite *Signorum Veterum Icones* features Battista Lorenzi’s *Allegory of Sculpture*, a relief originally created for Michelangelo’s tomb in Florence’s Santa Croce. The suite consists of 100 reproductive prints depicting classical sculptures from Dutch and Italian collections, intended as study material for artists. De Bisschop, a Dutch painter and printmaker, produced the series to aid in the study of anatomy, drapery, and pose in ancient statuary. The work was published in two parts by Nicolaes Visscher before being compiled into a single edition.
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Jan de Bisschop, also known as Johannes Episcopius (1628–1671), was a lawyer, who became a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.
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