ID: 700000285 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000285	Record Type: Movable Work

Elegantissimum opus coloribus expressum a Michaele Angelo Bonarroti in Vaticano Sacello a sum. Pont. Sixto IV. Sixtin. nuncupat (etching (print); Cunego, Domenico (etcher), after a painting by Michelangelo;...; published 1780; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; (OCoLC)ocn123408109; 721939; accession number: 2007.PR.76**)

Note: Also titled: Angles de la chapelle Sixtine au Vatican (Le Blanc); Painter and printmaker born in Verona, who moved to Rome in 1761; The print reproduces the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes by Michelangelo, rendering the nine narratives from the book of Genesis, as well as the ignudi, prophets and sibyls within the fictive stone framework; Two sheets with horizontal join, the whole folded in half, with two edges of the lower sheet adhered to paper mount; "94"--in pencil, upper center of mount; "23", in pencil, lower center of mount; "32"--stamped in blue, lower right corner.

Titles:

Elegantissimum opus coloribus expressum a Michaele Angelo Bonarroti in Vaticano Sacello a sum. Pont. Sixto IV. Sixtin. nuncupat (preferred,C,U,RP,Latin-P,U,U)

Angles de la chapelle Sixtine au Vatican (C,U,French,U,U)

Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

reproductive print [300041569]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works))

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: published 1780

Creator Display:

Cunego, Domenico (etcher), after a painting by Michelangelo; published by the printmaker [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Cunego, Domenico (Italian etcher and engraver, 1727-1803) [500003166]

artist Buonarroti, Michelangelo (Italian sculptor, painter, architect, 1475-1564) Qualifier: after Extent: work depicted [500010654]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: (OCoLC)ocn123408109; 721939; accession number: 2007.PR.76**

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Other: Publication: Roma [7000874] Roma province (province), Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: 1 print (2 sheets with horizontal join): etching, b&w; the whole is folded in half, with two edges of the lower sheet adhered to paper mount

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Dimensions: image 103 x 45.5 cm, on full sheet 107 x 49.5 cm, on mount 75 x 51.8 cm

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

interior architecture

another work

Specific Subjects:

	Sistine Chapel [700000224]
	.....(Sistine Chapel [700000224], Vatican Palace [700002022], Vatican Complex [700008429], Built Works by class: religious, ceremonial, and funerary structures [700009563], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)

	reproductive print [300041569]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works)) (AAT)

	Book of Genesis [901001627]
	.....((Bible, Old Testament, Bible, Literary works: Philosophy, Religion, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	interior spaces (spaces by location) [300078790]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, building divisions, rooms and spaces, <rooms and spaces by location or context>) (AAT)

Provenance: rumbl; Purchase.; Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein

Inscriptions: Elegantissimum opus coloribus expressum a Michaele Angelo Bonarroti in Vaticano Sacello a sum. Pont. Sixto IV. Sixtin. nuncupat Dominic. Cunego sculp. Romæ 1780.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Elegantissimum opus coloribus expressum a Michaele Angelo Bonarroti in Vaticano Sacello a sum. Pont. Sixto IV. Sixtin. nuncupat	........ [VP,GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 721939
Angles de la chapelle Sixtine au Vatican	........ [VP,GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ....... [VP,GRISC]

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)