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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. Top register is decorated in the center with an urn with a flame that is flanked on either side by a composite man and lion creature with a coiling vine for a tail. Bottom register is decorated in the center with a flower emanating from the top of a deer's head, which is flanked on either side by a dog that has a tail in the form of a coiling vine that terminates in a composite man and insect creature.

Artist

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

Date

1567

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1928