Giovanni Battista Maganza
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Giovanni Battista Maganza
1509-1589
Boy and a Noble Older Man ("Fanciulo nobile de la Regina" and "Uomo Nobile")
1584-1585
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
12 x 8 1/4 inches (305 x 209 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1993.156
Notes:
This and the following No. are probably costume designs for Sophocles', "Edipo Tiranno" (Oedipus Rex/Oedipus the Tryant), the inaugural play performed at the Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, in 1585. In the documents relating to the play, Giovanni Battista Maganza is mentioned as the designer of the costumes.
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Moscardo collection, Verona, which passed to the Marquis de Calceolari (no mark; see Lugt S. 2990a-g); Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, Marquis de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
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