Reprodukciniai Liudviko Sommerau ofortai iš Lietuvos dailės muziejaus rinkinių

ENThe Lithuanian Art Museum (LAM) keeps an extensive collection of Italian reproduced works from the 16th-18th c. The most valuable among them - Johannes Volpato’s (1733/35-1803) copper engravings, recreating Raphael’s Vatican lunette frescos - Dispute over the Holy Sacrament, The Athen School, Liberation of St Peter, The Expulsion ofEliodorfrom the Temple (from Stanza della Eliodoro, Vatican), Pietro Chigi’s engraved allegories of Justice, Poetry, Theology, Philosophy and Astrology from Stanza della Segnatura. Luigi Fabri (late 18th c. - early 19th c.) created a series of engravings about Cupid and Psiche after splendid loggias from Farnesina Palace (Villa Farnesina) in Rome, Julius Lasin, Filipo Cenci recreated the famous Raphael’s self-portraits, Salvatore Cardelli - the fragments of frescos in the Church of St Mary the Queen of Peace (Maria Paeis), featuring the prophets Habacuc, John, David and Daniel. Of interest and valuable are Antonio Lafrerij’s Praxiteles and Ovid and Antonio Salamanca’s The Laying to Coffin reproductions of compositions. Beside the Italian masters, the Belgian Nicolas Edeleck was active in Rome and did replicas of Raphael’s portraits and of the Holy Family, the Frenchman Franęois de Poiły (1622/23-1693) engraved Madonna and Child, Michel Lašine (L’asne, 1590/95- 1667) The Knight, Nicolas Dorigny (Dorigny Gallus, 1657-1746) Cupid and Psiche (Loggia di Psiche). In 1719 the latter was entrusted to reproduce Raphael’s preparatory cardboards for the grand tapestries of loggias (the so-called Loggie di Rafaele nei Vaticano).One of the most talented among the followers of Raphael’s work was the carver Johann Jacob Freij of the Swiss origin, who reproduced The Holy Family. The Netherlander Cornelius Corts’ splendid The Battle of the Scypion Legionaries against the Hannibal Army in North Africa is a replica of Raphael’s work. The graphics collection of the LAM keeps L. Sommerau’s interesting cycle of etchings. Their master - the court painter and engraver from the 18th c. (Fr. graveur au burin) of the Swiss origin Ludwig Sommerau (Johann Gottfried Ludwig, Fr. Louis) (19th March 1756 Wolfenbüttel - 30th July 1786 Brunswick(Braunsschweig). The work of Sommerau is attributed to the German school of graphics. Studied art in Switzerland, Basel at Christian van Mechel’s (Bale) workshop, later in Germany, Frankfurt on the Main. In 1774 worked in Rome, engraved and reproduced after the works by Guido Reni, Lievens, and Guecino. Besides the works on religious subjects, he also painted portraits. In 1779-1780, the last years of his work in Rome, he executed a scries of 20 in folio format etchings after Raphael’s and his pupils’ works and preparatory sketches. The co-authors - an art historian and a restorer - present in the publication the kept graphics collection kept in the Lithuanian Art Museum of L. Sommeraus’ series of etchings executed after the Raphael’s celebrated cardboards. The article also briefly reviews the development of graphic reproduction. On the basis of possibilities and the accumulated material, the authors present the peculiarities of the restoration and conservation of L. Sommeraus’ cycle of etchings and of the carried out processes.