Editing I Modi (section)

{{short description|Book with engravings of sexual scenes that was created in around 1524}}
{{redirect-distinguish|De omnibus Veneris Schematibus|De figuris Veneris}}
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[[File:Print (BM Ii,16.6.1-9 011).jpg|thumb|255x255px|These nine fragments cut from seven engravings<ref name="December 2004">{{Cite journal |author=James Grantham Turner |date=December 2004 |title=Marcantonio's Lost Modi and their Copies |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41826241 |journal=Print Quarterly |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=363–364, 366, 369, 373, 375, 379, 382–384 |jstor=41826241 |access-date=7 November 2022}}</ref> are thought to be by Agostino Veneziano.<ref name="December 2004" /> They are thought to come from a replacement set of engravings created for the images that were in ''I modi''.<ref name="December 2004" /> Paper. British Museum, London. Around 1530.<ref name="June 2009">{{Cite journal |author=James Grantham Turner |date=June 2009 |title=Woodcut Copics of the "Modi" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43826068 |journal=Print Quarterly |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=115, 116–117 |jstor=43826068 |access-date=2 August 2023}}</ref>]]
'''''I Modi''''' (''The Ways''), also known as '''''The Sixteen Pleasures''''' or under the Latin title '''''De omnibus Veneris Schematibus''''', is a famous [[Erotic art|erotic]] book of the [[Italian Renaissance]] that had [[engraving]]s of sexual scenes.<ref name="December 2004"/>  The engravings were created in a collaboration between [[Giulio Romano (painter)|Giulio Romano]] and [[Marcantonio Raimondi]].<ref name="June 2009 page 117">{{Cite journal
|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43826068
|author=James Grantham Turner
|date= June 2009
|title=Woodcut Copics of the "Modi"
|journal=Print Quarterly
|volume=26
|issue=2
|pages=117
|jstor=43826068
|access-date=2 August 2023
}}</ref><ref>Walter Kendrick, ''The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture'' (1987:59)</ref> They were thought to have been created around 1524 to 1527.<ref name="June 2009 page 117"/><ref name=2013Turner>{{cite journal |author=James Grantham Turner |date=February 2013 |title=Invention and Sexuality in the Raphael Workshop: Before the Modi |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264506338 |journal=Art History 
|volume=36 
|issue=1 
|pages=77 
|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8365.2012.00942.x 
|access-date=24 June 2024}}</ref>

There are now no known copies of the first two editions of ''I modi'' by Giulio Romano and Marcantonio Raimondi.<ref name="December 2004"/>

In around 1530<ref name="June 2009"/> Agostino Veneziano is thought to have created a replacement set of engravings for the engravings in ''I modi'' by Giulio and Marcantonio.<ref name="December 2004"/>