The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Prints and Drawings
Artist | |
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Culture | Italian |
Date | 1597 |
Object type | |
Medium, technique | engraving on paper |
Dimensions | 506 x 377 mm |
Inventory number | 25566 |
Collection | Prints and Drawings |
On view | This artwork is not on display |
Inscribed lower right: ‘Ferrau Fensonius Fauent In’, in the margin: ‘Per illustri DD Clementi Bartholo, Patricio Urbinati, uirtutum, ac bonarum artium portectori praestantiss Franciscus Villamena Viro optima sibi aspectu quidem ignoto fama autem & uirtute & sibi & ominib. notissimo dicatuit’ and with a poem: ‘Quisquis serpentum morsu cadis ictus, in altum/Tolle oculos pendet stipite certa salus//Dixerat haec Moses: Populus dum mortus imago/Imminet inspiciens aerea signa uidet// Hoc Deus in ligno mortem tulit ultro cadensq./Occidit, ut moriens mors mea Vita foret’ and with privilege at left: ‘Romae Cum Priuilegio Sumi/Pontificis Anno MDXCVII’, and at right: ‘Superiorum Permissu’.
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