Splendore delle virtuose giovani, page 15 (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 4 vertical columns printed upon a grid. First column is decorated in the center with an interlace motif surrounding a 4-petaled flower in the middle, which is flanked on the top and bottom by leaves. Second column is decorated in the center with a double-headed bird that forms into leaves followed by coiling stems. Third column is decorated with a curving vine of leaves. Fourth column is decorated with a pattern of leaves that attach to illustrations of a bull's head.

Artist

Iseppo Foresto|Jeronimo Calepino

Date

1564

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1921