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Christ Healing the Lepers
Andrea Andreani1608
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This print portrays Christ—with the twelve apostles—miraculously healing a group of lepers encountered on his way to Jerusalem. Andrea Andreani who, after 1599, acquired a number of the earlier blocks of artists like Vicentino and Ugo de Carpi. He published these as his own, reworking them in some cases and adding his initials, an in the CMA example.
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- Title: Christ Healing the Lepers
- Creator: Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610), Guiseppe Rossigliani (Italian, c. 1510-), Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540)
- Date Created: 1608
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 29.8 x 41.8 cm (11 3/4 x 16 7/16 in.)
- Provenance: Galerie Arnot, Vienna and Paris, stamp (Lugt 124), verso, upper left, in black ink ; purchased from Maurice Gobin, Paris
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.983
- Medium: chiaroscuro woodcut (in two shades of gray and black)
- State of work: ii/ii
- Inscriptions: lower left, in block (black): AA in mantoua 1608. [AA in monogram] ; lower left, in block (light gray): IOSEPH [. NICOLAUS / VICENTINI] ; VERSO, lower left, in pen and brown ink: Andrean[ia?] Andrean[onr?] Andrean[eus?] ; across bottom, in graphite: Andrea Andreani (wood cut- in chi- scur) / 1560-1623 ; lower right, in graphite: p. 39. n· 15 / 2nd imp n. ; lower right, in graphite: Vincentino ; lower right, in graphite: 181-- 10/ ; lower right, in graphite: A[p?]
- Department: Prints
- Culture: Italy, 16th century
- Credit Line: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
- Collection: PR - Chiaroscuro
- Accession Number: 1925.983
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