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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 3 horizontal registers. Top register is decorated in the center with a pot from which curving vines of leaves emanate; interspersed throughout the vines are monkeys and birds. Middle register illustrates a hunting scene; on the right side a kneeling hunter holds a crossbow aimed at a flying duck in the center. Bottom register illustrates another hunting scene in which 2 men (one on horseback) and their dogs hunt a fleeing buck.

Artist

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

Date

1567

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1928