Germania and Italia

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Germania and Italia

c. 1842

Ferdinand Piloty (German, 1786–1844) After a painting of 1815-28 by Johann Friedrich Overbeck (German, 1789–1869) Published by Piloty & Loehle, Munich Printed by Piloty and Loehle, Karlstrasse No 39, Munich

In 1828, Friedrich Overbeck painted a friendship allegory—a project he had set aside after his friend and fellow artist Franz Pforr’s death at the age of twenty-four in 1812. Overbeck's print symbolizes the artistic ideals of the two friends, specifically the espousal of early-Renaissance Italian and German art in the form of a pair of dark- and fair-haired maidens holding hands, with a view of the Roman countryside to represent Raphael behind Italia and the skyline of Dürer’s Nuremberg behind Germania.

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Object Details

Titles:

Germania and Italia
Germania et Italia, From the portfolio Königlich Bayerische Pinakothek zu München und Gemälde Gallerie zu Schleissheim (Munich: Piloty und Loehle 1837 42), (Royal Bavarian Pinakothek in Munich and Painting Gallery at Schleissheim), GRP no. 217

Date:

c. 1842

Artists:

Medium:

Lithograph

Dimensions:

Image: 16 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (41.9 × 47 cm) Sheet: 23 7/16 x 33 11/16inches (59.5 x 85.6cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John F. Lewis Collection given to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1933 by Mrs. John F. Lewis, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985

Accession Number:

1985-52-39710

Geography:

Made in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

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