Prints

The prints collection currently consists of 1287 items and might date back to the times of Michele Coronini (1793-1876), great-great-grandfather of the last Count, who gathered what can be considered the original nucleus of this collection, consisting of 126 sheets encompassing, above all, works from the 16th and the 17th centuries. Among them, there are some of the most valuable prints like Solomon’s Sacrifice by Lucas van Leyden, Saint Jerome by Cornelis Cort, based on a drawing of Muziano, or the complete series of The Life of the Virgin by Hendrick Goltzius. In the next century the collection was expanded by Count Carlo, who was an etcher himself and made several works, and by his son Guglielmo, with a major interest in engravings from the Renaissance and the Baroque periods, as well as in minor works which were more related to local history: religious and popular prints, city views and a large number of lithographs. Count Guglielmo Coronini also acquired a nucleus of 387 Japanese prints.