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Andrea Andreani. The Abduction of a Sabine Woman, 1584. chiaroscuro woodcut, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1925.1221. CC0.
The Abduction of a Sabine Woman
1584
Andrea Andreani
Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610)
Prints
The Abduction of a Sabine Woman, 1584. Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610), after Giambologna (Flemish, active Italy, 1529–1608). Chiaroscuro woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1925.1221 A pinnacle of sculpture in the generation after Michelangelo was Giambologna’s Abduction of the Sabine Women, depicted here in a contemporaneous print by Andrea Andreani. Giambologna created a twisting harmony of three forms that capture the narrative of a Roman male abducting a Sabine woman and vanquishing a Sabine male below. Giambologna’s sculpture was installed in Florence in the public piazza near Michelangelo’s David. The Abduction of a Sabine Woman is the first attempt in the chiaroscuro technique by Andrea Andreani, as well as the first chiaroscuro ever to depict a work of sculpture.
Inscription: In black ink on the rock on the right: "P. marietta 1674"
Inscribed lower right: "Rapta (m) Sabinam a / Io: Bolog. Marm: excul./ Andreas Andrean(us) Ma(n)t:/ incisit.atq (ue). Bernard/ Vechiett dicavit an/)no/ M.D.LXXXIII"