Justice rewarding the worthy

Cornelis Cort, engraver
Netherlands
1533 – before 1578

after Federico Zuccaro, designer
Italy
1543 – 1609

Justice rewarding the worthy
1566
engraving on paper
Place made
Rome
Medium
engraving on paper
State
I/II
Dimensions
26.1 x 31.5 cm (plate & sheet)
24.0 x 30.8 cm (image)
Credit line
Bequest of David Murray 1908
Accession number
084G278
Signature and date
Inscribed in plate: l.l. "Fed.cus Zuccarus Urbin.' Invent."; bot.c. "1566". Inscribed, engraved in margin of plate, bot.c. "Ant. Lafrerij Formis Romae.oo.D.LXVI.".
Catalogue raisonne
B (ill) v 52, p 255, 223; Holl. V, p 59, 223; New Holl., no. 156 i/ii
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints

  • WALL LABEL: A Beautiful Line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi, 2012

     

    Cornelis Cort was a Dutch printmaker who, after moving to Italy in 1565 and until his death in 1578, exerted a profound influence on Italian printmaking.  His great technical skill as an engraver influenced Agostino Carracci and a generation of younger printmakers both in Italy and in the north. Cort’s technical mastery is abundantly evident in this engraving. His experiments with the swelling and tapering line – the so-called ‘schwellende Taille’ – is visible in the monumental figure of Justice in the foreground. By varying the depth and width of the burin lines and thereby extending the print’s tonal range, he was able to create a powerful sense of three-dimensional form.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

     

  • A beautiful line. Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 20 August 2010 – 31 October 2010
  • [Book] Zagala, Maria. A Beautiful Line : Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi.
  • [Book] Montes, Santiago. El Arte de Mediar (The Art of Mediating).
    Complimentary copy to come.