Allegory of Adolescence

Visscher, Lambert, 1633?-after 1690

Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669

Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de', 1627-1691

print

Io. Iacob. de Rubeis formis Romae ad Temp. pacis

Rome

[1677-1686]

1 print : engraving ; plate mark 415 x 645 mm. on sheet 487 x 740 mm.

paper

Latin

Italy

Titled below: "Adolescentiam Pallas a Venere avellit Radix amara Virtutis, fructus Suavis"; at lower left: "Eques Petrus Berettinus Corton. pinx. florentiae in AEdibus Seren.i magni Ducis Hetruriae in camera Veneris"; at lower centre: "Io. Iacob. de Rubeis formis Romae ad Temp. pacis"; at lower right: "L. Visscher sculpsit"

Pr. [1] of: Pietro da Cortona's fresco's at the Palazzo Pitti, Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de', 20.A.II.106/12-13; 15-25; 29-34

Girolamo Casanate, Lugt 4559

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Minerva (Roman deity)
Athena (Greek deity)
Heracles (Greek mythological character)

Adolescence

Biblioteca Casanatense

Fondo Stampe e Disegni

20.A.II.106/12

Link to mother card

20.A.II.106/12-13; 15-25; 29-34

Link to album description

20.A.II.106

Hollstein's Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450 - 1700, Roosendaal 1992, vol. XL, p. 222, n. 5

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