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Allegorical ceiling decoration

Maker

After
(artist)
1596-1669

(publisher)
1627-1691

Title

Allegorical ceiling decoration

Date of Production

(c.) 1677

Medium

printed in black
engraving

Dimensions

Height: 36.9 cm
Width: 28.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.7293.2

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords









Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: 9 //

Inscription: TEMPERANTIAE. ET. CONTINENTIAE. SYMBOLA. ET. EXEMPLA. / P. SCIPIO Africanus eximie forme Virginem Indibali desponsam, in Carthaginis expugnatione captam, Sponso inuiolatam tradidit. / Eq. Petrus Berettin Corton. Pinxit. in Aula Barberina. Io Iacob de Rubeis Formis Romae ad Templ. S. M. de Pace cu Priu. S. P. //

Inscription: PIETRO da Cortona / Palazzi Barberini //

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