Fishermen Catching a Sea Monster

Prints and Drawings

1560/70

Adamo Scultori (Italian, c. 1530-1587)
after Giulio Romano (Italian, c. 1499-1546)

Adamo Scultori came from a lineage of Italian engravers. He was taught by his father, Giovanni Battista Scultori, who worked with Giulio Romano, the inventor of this image. The central fish head, belonging to a mythical monster, relates the print to a secular tradition of Roman seagoing gods and beasts.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Adamo Scultori
Title: Fishermen Catching a Sea Monster
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1560–1570
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 21 × 31.4 cm (8 5/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Bernard F. Rogers, Sr.
Reference Number: 1935.118
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Champaign, Illinois, “Raphael and the Ruins of Rome: The Poetic Dimensions,” Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, November 12, 1983-January 22, 1984, p. 40 (as Adam Ghisi).

Bartsch XV.429.106

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