6664B

Madonna under a flamboyant arch

Artist: Workshop of Antonio Ricardo (but only as a printer)
Title: Madonna under a flamboyant arch
Date: 1598
Medium: Woodblock impression. Title page illustration for Fray Luis de Oré, Symbolo Catholico Indiano[.] Lima: Antonio Ricardo, 1598.
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Antonio Ricardo, Lima, Perú.
Photo Source: Mori 2013a and Almerindo Ojeda
Correspondence Credit: Almerindo Ojeda
Note: Antonio Ricardo was an Italian typographer who worked in Venice, Lyon, Valladolid, and Medina del Campo. In 1570, Ricardo left Europe and traveled to America to become one of the first publishers of the New World. It follows that Ricardo could have acquired this woodblock from (the successors of) Juan Varela de Salamanca in Seville —the required point of departure for the Indies— and brought it along in his transatlantic journey. Ricardo could have then printed this woodblock in Lima, where he relocated in 1580.
Item: 6664B