Italian Masters from the 16th and 17th Century

 Bernardo Daddi / Master B / Master of the dice      

Bernardo Daddi (1512-1570)
Called "master B" he signed with a B on a dice or just a dice"
Italian painter of history and genre.  He died in Rome. He was strongly inspired by Marcantonio Raimondi.

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DAPHNE CONSULTING HER FATHER

 the River God Peneus, about the amorous advances of Apollo.  This is one of four prints in a series, The Story of Apollo and Daphne, after Baldassare Peruzzi. interesting to know os that the Metropolitan Museum in New York considers this series significant enough to use it as an illustration in their Timeline of Art History.  All 4 prints are online; the main picture is Apollo Killing Python, but you can see the others by clicking on the thumbnails at this link

Berbardo Daddi (1512 - 1570)
24 by 18 cm
Signed with the dice bottom right
reference: B.XV 197.20 I
Several collecotrs stamps on the backside


ANEAS CARRYING HIS FATHER FROM BURNING TROY

Berbardo Daddi (1512 - 1570)

26,00 by 18,60 cm

Signed with the monogram B on the dices bottom right
Reference: Bartsch 72
Circular Italian watermark.
Crowned L collectors stamp on the backside.


 


BATTLE OF SCIPIO AFRICANUS AGAINST THE KING OF NUBIA
BEFORE THE WALL'S OF CARTAGO

Bernardo Daddi (1512 - 1570)
circa 1530 after Raphael Urbino

20 by 25 cm

Signed with the monogram B on the dices bottom right
Reference: Pass.VI. 100.93

Published by Philip Thomassin (1560-1640)
 

 


TAPPEZERIA DEL PAPA

Bernardo Daddi (1512 - 1570)
after Raphael Urbino

21 by 28,20 cm

Signed with the monogram B on the dices bottom right
Reference: B. XV 117.32

With the publishers address of Antonio Lafrery (1512-1577)
and Giovanni Giacomo Rossi (dated 1655
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CUPID AND PSYCHE
Bernardo Daddi* (1512 - 1570)
after Raphael Urbino

19,50 by 23 cm

From "The golden ass of Lucius Apuleius
Published by Antonio Salamanca around 1545
With the publishers address of Antonio Salamanca

(*) other prints from the series made by
Agostino Veneziano (1490-1540)

 

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These original engravings are available for purchase.
You can access larger images by clicking on the thumbnail images above.
Contact me for a price list if interested.



(detail of the Aeneas print)

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