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| Title:: |
The Roman People Offering a Sacrifice to Minerva, Who Appears with the Arms of Cardinal Ludovisi |
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| Artist: |
Coriolano, Giovanni Battista |
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| Medium: |
engraving |
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| Period: |
Italian 17th Century |
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Renaissance |
| Catalogs: |
Bartsch XIX-45-25;
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359
458
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| Price: |
$500.00 |
| Description: |
Fine impression on an early laid paper with the watermark of an anchor with two stars in a circle (not in Briquet), with good margins; flattened fold marks. The combination of a pagan scene with the coat of arms of a Catholic cardinal (on the shield of the goddess, no less) is odd, but this admixture of pagan and Christian, of sacred and historical/mythological was characteristic of the Renaissance and lasted well beyond it. |
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