Virtus Combusta: An Allegory of Virtue

1500/1505

Andrea Mantegna

Artist, Paduan, c. 1431 - 1506

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

Engraver, Italian, active c. 1490 - 1525 or after

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper by Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

  • Credit Line

    Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 27.3 x 40.7 cm (10 3/4 x 16 in.)

  • Accession

    1941.1.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.27, no. 22

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 196.

1989

  • Image and Word, Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD, 1989.

2004

  • "The European Savage", Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona; Centre Cultural Bancaja, Valencia, 2004.

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson, Jay A. et al. _Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art _. Washington, 1973, no.84.

Watermarks

Fleur-de-lys in Circle with Star. Cf. Br. 7116 (Florence 1530)

Wikidata ID

Q64952845

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