20 August – 31 October 2010
Gallery 22
In a rare opportunity, some of the masterpieces of Italian printmaking go on display in the
exhibition
A beautiful line. The exhibition comprises around 140 Italian prints from the mid
fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries drawn from the rich collection of the Art Gallery of
South Australia.
Highlights include Andrea Mantegna’s Renaissance masterpiece
The Entombment, woodcuts by Titian and his contemporaries, and G.B. Piranesi’s dark and
evocative prints of imaginary prisons from the eighteenth century. Major printmakers are examined
and the virtuosity and diversity of printmaking during this period is explored through religious,
mythological, and architectural subjects.
Exhibition list
of works
detail: Paolo Farinati, Italy, 1524-1606,
Venus and Cupid, 1566, Verona, Italy, etching, engraving on paper, 26.8 x 25.7 cm (plate
& sheet). Bequest of David Murray 1908. Art Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide.
