Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 75 (recto)

Cesare Vecellio

1601 · Woodcut · Drawings and Prints

Published by Cesare Vecellio, Italian, Pieve di Cadore 1521-1601 Venice, Venice. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 2 horizontal registers. Top register is decorated with 3 rounded triangular motifs that are ornamented in the center with different types of musical instruments, including a harp, lyres, a violin, and clarinets. Bottom register is decorated in the center with a floral element that is flanked on either side by a composite man and plant creature playing a horn; illustrated at each end of this register is a monkey playing a tambourine.

Artist

Cesare Vecellio

Date

1601

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1918