I Modi

"De omnibus Veneris Schematibus" redirects here. Not to be confused with De figuris Veneris.

These nine fragments cut from seven engravings[1] are thought to be by Agostino Veneziano.[1] They are thought to come from a replacement set of engravings created for the images that were in I modi.[1] Paper. British Museum, London. Around 1530.[2]

I Modi (The Ways), also known as The Sixteen Pleasures or under the Latin title De omnibus Veneris Schematibus, is a famous erotic book of the Italian Renaissance that had engravings of sexual scenes.[1] The engravings were created in a collaboration between Giulio Romano and Marcantonio Raimondi.[3][4] They were thought to have been created around 1524 to 1527.[3][5]

There are now no known copies of the first two editions of I modi by Giulio Romano and Marcantonio Raimondi.[1]

In around 1530[2] Agostino Veneziano is thought to have created a replacement set of engravings for the engravings in I modi by Giulio and Marcantonio.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f James Grantham Turner (December 2004). "Marcantonio's Lost Modi and their Copies". Print Quarterly. 21 (4): 363–364, 366, 369, 373, 375, 379, 382–384. JSTOR 41826241. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b James Grantham Turner (June 2009). "Woodcut Copics of the "Modi"". Print Quarterly. 26 (2): 115, 116–117. JSTOR 43826068. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  3. ^ a b James Grantham Turner (June 2009). "Woodcut Copics of the "Modi"". Print Quarterly. 26 (2): 117. JSTOR 43826068. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  4. ^ Walter Kendrick, The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture (1987:59)
  5. ^ James Grantham Turner (February 2013). "Invention and Sexuality in the Raphael Workshop: Before the Modi". Art History. 36 (1): 77. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8365.2012.00942.x. Retrieved 24 June 2024.