Splendore delle virtuose giovani, page 14 (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 in the center with an ornamented urn, which is surrounded by coiling vines of leaves and grapes, among which are feeding putti and doves. Middle column is decorated with a wavy vine with an alternating pattern of white dotted and solid black leaves. Right column is decorated with a central white dotted fleur-de-lis sitting upon curving leaves that connect on both sides to a coiling stem of diverse leaves.

Artist

Iseppo Foresto|Jeronimo Calepino

Date

1564

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1921