Screen Depicting the Italian Rebus of Fortune

Stefano Della Bella

Associated Names
Stefano Della Bella

Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664

This is a drawing of an intricately illustrated shield or mirror-like form filled with various allegorical and mythical elements. The detailed illustration includes a vertically elongated oval shape containing winged figures, a reclining human-like figure, animals, fantastical creatures, human-animal hybrids, and various objects such as barrels, keys, ships, and scales. The bottom of the drawing shows a human figure interacting with a scale and another figure riding a crescent shape. The borders of the oval feature a decorative pattern with plant forms and scrolls.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper [restrike]

  • Credit Line

    Transferred from The Library of Congress

  • Accession Number

    1986.50.106

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 689, State (restrike)

  • Series Title

    Quadreria Medicea, vol.3 (1986.50.11-108)

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1906

  • Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906, no. 689, (restrike).

1971

  • De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no. 689, (restrike).

2001

  • Talbierska, Jolanta.AKWAFORTY ZE ZBIOROW GABINETU RYCIN BIBLIOTEKI UNIWERSYTECKIEJ W WARSZAWIE / Etchings from the Collection of the Print Room of the Warsaw University Library. Warsaw, 2001: no. III. 56.

Wikidata ID

Q74873498

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