Thursday, June 2, 2016

Classical Artifacts and Statues by Jan de Bisschop

Jan de Bisschop
Antique reliefs of animal heads
ca. 1643-71
drawing
British Museum

Dutch lawyer and artist Jan de Bisschop (1628-1671) made hundreds of drawings, etchings, and engravings of ancient Roman statuary without ever setting foot in Italy. The antiquities he represented were known to him exclusively from drawings and prints made by others. The distinctive and extremely effective graphic style of Jan de Bisschop must necessarily have been shaped by the need to convey an authority of observation that he had no practical grounds for claiming.  

Jan de Bisschop
Statue of Mourning Woman
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Statue of Mourning Woman
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Statue of Caius Marius in Toga
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Statue of Caninus in Toga
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Borghese Spinner
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Colossal Captive Barbarian at Palazzo Farnese 
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Draped Torso at the Vatican
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Draped Torso at the-Vatican
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Bust of Zeno
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Bust of Democritus
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Capitoline Urania
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Capitoline Urania
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum

Jan de Bisschop
Medici Aphrodite
ca. 1643-71
etching
British Museum