Ornament Panel: Two Children Wearing Helmets

c. 1505/1515

Giovanni Pietro Birago and Zoan Andrea

Associated Names
Giovanni Pietro Birago

Artist, Italian, active 1471 - 1513 or after

Andrea Zoan

Artist, Italian, active c.1475/1519

This is a drawing of an ornamental design with classical architecture, scrollwork, floral patterns, a torso without arms or legs, decorative symbols like vases, foliage, shields, helmets, mythological figures, vines, and scrolls. The composition is symmetrical and balanced.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 55.4 x 7.9 cm (21 13/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.444

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.80, no. 10, State (03)

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 222.

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.104.

Wikidata ID

Q64957097

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