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Giovanni Ostaus|Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati)

1567 · Woodcut · Drawings and Prints

Published by Giovanni Ostaus, Venice, woodcut of Lucrezia designed by Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati), Italian, Castelnuova di Garfagnana ca. 1520-1575 Venice. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 2 horizontal registers that are printed upon a grid. Top register is decorated with coiling vines of leaves and flowers that form a heart shape at the bottom, attached to which are 2 symmetrical gargoyle figures. Bottom register is decorated with curving vines of flowers and grapes that emanate from 2 cornucopias below; interspersed throughout the vines are birds that feed off of the grapes and fruit in the cornucopias.

Artist

Giovanni Ostaus|Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati)

Date

1567

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1928