Allegorical Theme: Combat of Animals

c. 1515/1520

Master of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Artist, Milanese, active first quarter 16th century

Master of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 22.9 x 32.8 cm (9 x 12 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1951.10.451

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.98, no. 2

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1956

  • Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 229, repro.

2000

  • The Fantastic in Renaissance Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

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 et al. 1973, no.159 (a).

Wikidata ID

Q65362465

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