Divers Trophées (Weapon Trophies after the Façade of Palazzo Milesi in Rome)
Charles Errard le fils|Polidoro da Caravaggio|Georges Tournier
1651 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints
Print from a series of six reproducing the weapon trophies over the second floor windows of Palazzo Milesi in Rome, designed and executed by Polidoro da Caravaggio in 1525/26. The print shows a large trophy with a Roman centurion helmet. The helmet is characterized by two sphinxes and a lion supporting the plume. The helmet is flanked by shields. In a semispherical compartment below the helmet the inscriptions have been placed.
- Artist
- Charles Errard le fils|Polidoro da Caravaggio|Georges Tournier
- Date
- 1651
- Medium
- Engraving
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Phyllis D. Massar Gift, 2012
