Splendore delle virtuose giovani, page 4 (recto)

Iseppo Foresto|Jeronimo Calepino

1564 · Woodcut · Drawings and Prints

Designed by Iseppo Foresto, published by Jeronimo Calepino, Venice. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 3 vertical columns printed upon a grid. Left column is decorated with 2 curving vines with black flowers and leaves that connect to a white dotted flower at the bottom. Middle column is decorated with 2 coiling vines that connect at bottom to frame a black heart with 2 arrows shot through it. Right column is decorated with 2 coiling vines that form the legs of a composite female figure at the very bottom.

Artist

Iseppo Foresto|Jeronimo Calepino

Date

1564

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1921