Artist
Gerardo Fontana
Gerardo Fontana is a Renaissance artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A Spanish printmaker in the late 1500s, Gerardo Fontana carved religious scenes onto paper. In 1579–80 he cut the woodblock print Adoration of the Shepherds, where shepherds kneel before the infant Jesus under a star-studded sky. The print survives as a fragile sheet, ink pressed into the carved grooves. Look closer and you can trace the burin’s zig-zag lines that create shadow across the manger straw. Step next to the same scene carved a generation earlier by Juan de Juni—side-by-side you’ll feel the shift from deep relief to finer modeling.
Works by Gerardo Fontana
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.