Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Preview image of work. woodcut on paper, Six Saints 9844

1986.111

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Six Saints

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Artists

Niccolo Boldrini ; Vecellio Tiziano (Pieve di Cadore, Italy, 1488-1490 - 1576, Venice, Italy)

Title

Six Saints

Creation Date

1535

Century

16th century

Dimensions

16 3/16 in. x 22 3/16 in. (41.1 cm. x 56.4 cm.)

Object Type

Creation Place

Europe, Italy

Medium and Support

woodcut on paper

Credit Line

Museum Purchase

Copyright

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Accession Number

1986.111

Titian, who early in his career had created woodblock prints himself, later relied on the wood-engraver Nicolò Boldrini (active in Venice, ca. 1530–1570) and others to circulate his inventions. This famous woodcut, the result of a direct cooperation between painter and printmaker, is based on Titian’s altarpiece The Madonna and Child in Glory with Angels and Saints (1533–1535), now in the Vatican Museum. The print treats its source rather freely by focusing on the lower half of the composition that in the original is dominated by Mary and the Christ child hovering on clouds above the saints. The head of St. Sebastian, the leftmost figure in this print was improved to heighten the emotional drama and compositional coherence.