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These two images above are woodcuts and it is speculated that they have been copied from engravings created by Agostino Veneziano.The artist of the booklet from where these two images come from is unkown. Date: Around 1555?

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English: Extract from: Sonetti lussuriosi, printed in Venice, before Novembre 9, 1527. With two poems by Pietro Aretino.

Page on the left: Posture #2 - Page on the right: Posture #3.

These two images above are woodcuts and it is speculated that they have been copied from engravings created by Agostino Veneziano.[1][2]

It is thought that the engravings in the Agostino Veneziano edition of I modi were copied from the engravings in the edtion of I modi that was created in a collaboration between Marcantonio Raimondi and Giulio Romano.[1]It is thought that Agostino veneziano may have engraved a single replacement set of engravings based on offset drawings from the engravings in Marcantonio and Giulio's edition of "I modi".[1]

It has been speculated that the date for the creation of the two images above from the woodcut booklet is around 1555.[1]

This replacement set by Agostino is thought to have been made in around 1530.[2]

The edition of I modi created by Marcantonio and Giulio is thought to have been created in around 1524 to 1527.[3]

It is unknown who the artist is of the woodcut booklet that is speculated to have been created in around 1555.[1]

The images in this woodcut booklet were created using woodcut releif printing.[1][2]

It has also been speculated that the images in this book were bound in with contemporary texts.[1]


This is an extract from the one and unique copy of this woodcut book from around 1555.[1]

Former collection of Gérard Nordmann [item 1], in: Eros invaincu, Genova: 2004 - sold by Christie's in 2006.
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  1. a b c d e f g h James Grantham Turner (2004-12). "Marcantonio's Lost Modi and their Copies". Print Quarterly 21 (4): 363 - 364, 366, 373, 375, 379, 382 - 384.
  2. a b c James Grantham Turner (2009-06). "Woodcut Copics of the "Modi"". Print Quarterly 26 (2): 115, 116 - 117.
  3. James Grantham Turner (2009-06). "Woodcut Copics of the "Modi"". Print Quarterly 26 (2): 117.

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