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Matteo Pagano

1563 · Woodcut · Drawings and Prints

Published by Matteo Pagano, Italian, 1515-1588, Venice. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design is decorated on the top by 2 horizontal registers. Top register is ornamented with flowers, fleurs-de-lis, and a dragon. Bottom register is decorated with squares that are ornamented with an alternating pattern of flowers and figures. Below the 2 horizontal registers is a large square that frames a wreath made of branches and leaves, inside which exists a turtle that bites the foliage.

Artist

Matteo Pagano

Date

1563

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937