Genius Holding a Tableau, Frontispiece to the series Mythological Subjects Cherubino Alberti Polidoro da Caravaggio (after)

Artist	Cherubino Alberti Borgo San Sepolcro, 1553 – Rome, 1615 Polidoro da Caravaggio (after) Caravaggio, ca. 1499 – Messina, ca. 1543
Culture	Italian
Place of production	Italy
Date	1590
Object type	print
Medium, technique	paper, engraving
Dimensions	235 x 155 mm (sheet, trimmed close to platemark)
Inventory number	5850
Collection	Prints and Drawings
On view	This artwork is not on display

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Inscribed on the tablet: ‘Ill.mo Chiappins/Vitellis/Bonarum artium Sanctuori/Patronoq Amplissimo/Cherubinus Albertus haec/tabularum comenta a/Polidoro Carauagio Peni/Cillo illustrata atquua se in/aere incisa nuncupat dicat/Anno CICICLXXXX’ and lower left: ‘Cum priuilegio/summi Pontificis’

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