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 various figures. On the right of the frieze a figure group consisting of a satyr and a naked woman is dipicted. The satyr embraces her but it appears she is trying to escape. Interspersed between the acathus scroll a snake, a lion a putto and a griffin can also be noted.

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