{"id":19214,"date":"2021-11-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/?page_id=19214"},"modified":"2021-11-09T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:31:12","slug":"strange-impressions-mannerist-prints-from-the-rokeby-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/collections\/past-exhibitions-and-displays\/strange-impressions-mannerist-prints-from-the-rokeby-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Impressions : Mannerist prints from the Rokeby Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This exhibition forms part of the year\u2019s celebrations to mark the Library\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been supported by the Paul Mellon Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Reproductive engraving after a monochrome fresco of the creation of Adam<\/em>\nCherubino Alberti (1553-1615), after Polidoro da Caravaggio (c.1499-c.1543)\nRome\nc.1570-90\nP002477892\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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In this engraving, the printmaker Cherubino Alberti has reproduced a fresco, a mural painting, that was painted on the outside of a building. The fresco started to decay a few decades after it was made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The original fresco was executed in various tones of a single colour. It was intended to evoke the character of another medium: relief sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To recreate the different tones, Cherubino used both overlapping lines and lines graduating in thickness, giving the effect of contour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The effect of modelling in three dimensions through tone is known as \u2018chiaroscuro\u2019 (\u2018light-dark\u2019). The result is the complete opposite of the bright clarity of Michelangelo\u2019s Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel. Here, the creation of mankind is a mysterious event, taking place in a world not yet fully illuminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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