Podestat
Paul Mercuri
1829
Physical Description
Medium: engraving
Production Description
Production Date: 1829
Provenance
Current Location: Indiana University Library
Sources of the Work
Pictorial Object: Miracle of Saint Bernardine
Artist: Pinturrichio
Other Information: Camille Bonnard identifies the source of Mercuri's engraving as Pinturrichio's fresco in
the church Santa Maria in Aracoeli, located in Rome.
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
op128.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
Eriko Yamaguchi has identified this plate, “Podestat”, from Bonnard's Costumes Historiques as a pictorial source for the figures of an old priest in Retro Me Sathana! , and one of the companions in The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice . The figure's necklace, or chain of office, appears on a man in Taurello's First Sight of Fortune , and in Ruth and Boaz .
Pictorial
DGR may have first seen this figure when it was copied by Ford Madox Brown in Wycliffe Reading His Translation of the New Testament , painted in the winter of 1847-48 (Yamaguchi, Rossetti's Use of Bonnard's Costumes Historiques, 9).
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