Niccolò Vicentino

Niccolò Vicentino belongs to the generation of Italian printmakers who carried the chiaroscuro woodcut to its height in the sixteenth century, building modelled, tonally layered images from two or three relief blocks printed in greens, grays, black and lime, and orange. His subjects are chiefly mythological and biblical figures and scenes, among them Hercules and the Nemean Lion and, after Raphael, The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. This archive gathers eleven of his sheets, most of them two- and three-block chiaroscuro woodcuts, with impressions up to 1540.

11 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Hercules and the Nemean Lion (1540–1550)

1540–1550 · Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in orange (state ia/ii)

Ajax lower left holding a shield aloft, at the right stands Agamemnon surrounded by his soldiers

1540–50 · Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in gray

Hercules and the Nemean Lion (1540–50, Met-Objekt 5876)

1540–50 · Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in black and lime (state ia/ii)

Hercules and the Nemean Lion (1540–50, Met-Objekt 5878)

1540–50 · Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in pale blue (state ia/ii)

Hercules and the Nemean Lion (1540–50, Met-Objekt 5879)

1540–50 · Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in pale brown (state ib/ii)

Hercules and the Nemean Lion (1540–50, Met-Objekt 5981)

1540–50 · Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in green (state ii)

Hercules and the Nemean Lion (1540–50, Met-Objekt 5982)

1540–50 · Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in green (state ii)

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1540–50, Met-Objekt 5984)

1540–50 · Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in brown

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, after Raphael

1540–50 (republished 1609) · Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in tan brown

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1540–50 (republished 1609), Met-Objekt 5985)

1540–50 (republished 1609) · Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in pale green (state iii/iii)

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1540–50 (republished 1609), Met-Objekt 5986)

1540–50 (republished 1609) · Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in pale green (state iii/iii)