Disegni Varij di Polifilo Zancarli (Friezes)
Polifilo Giancarli|Odoardo Fialetti
ca. 1625 · etching · Drawings and Prints
Design for a frieze filled with a meandering acanthus scroll and three figure groups. On the left, a male centaur carries a naked woman on his back. The acanthus scroll springs from his lower body and meanders right. Just after the middle of the design a satyr is about to hit a multi-headed dragon with his club. At the right end of the frieze another satyr is depicted, this time fromt the back, who appeard to be struggling with a large snake.
- Artist
- Polifilo Giancarli|Odoardo Fialetti
- Date
- ca. 1625
- Medium
- etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
