Coat of arms of Cardinal Francesco Sforza. Engraving attributed to L. Ciamberlano after F. Cavazzone.

  • Cavazzone, Francesco, 1559-after 1616.
Date:
[between about 1600 and 1641?]
Reference:
2475508i
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Description

A lion rampant, holding a rose, with a cardinal's hat held above by amorini holding olive branches. To the sides, women personifying Prudence (holding a snake and a mirror) and Magnanimity (crowned, holding a mace, and seated on a lion). Below, harpies support the motto "Tu solus"

Publication/Creation

[Italy] : [publisher not identified], [between about 1600 and 1641?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 21.5 x ca 25.5 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Tu solus

Creator/production credits

Attribution to Luca Ciamberlano after Francesco Cavazzone suggested by DeGrazia Bohlin, loc. cit. Previously attributed in Malvasia, loc. cit., to Agostino Carracci (followed by Bartsch), and by Pasinelli to Francesco Brizio

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Würzburg 1920-1922, vol. 18, Agostino no. 180
Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Felsina pittrice, Bologna 1841, vol. 1 p. 78
Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family: a catalogue raisonné, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979, no. R 49, p. 412

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2475508i

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