Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 109 (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 a central zigzagging line that forms 2 ornamented triangles above the line and 3 ornamented triangles below the line; upper triangles are decorated with foliage patterns and lower triangles are decorated with animal and figural representations that include a foliage element. Bottom register is decorated in the center with a shield ornamented with a man's face wearing a crown; this central element is flanked on both sides by 2 composite man, bird, and lion creatures whose tails form curving vines of flowers, upon which 2 dragons climb.

Artist

Cesare Vecellio

Date

1601

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1918