Plate from "Divers Trophées" (Weapon Trophies after the Façade of Palazzo Milesi in Rome)

Polidoro da Caravaggio Italian
 Draftsman Charles Errard le fils French
 Georges Tournier French

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Print from a series of six reproducing the weapon trophies over the second floor windows of Palazzo Milesi in Rome, designed and executed by Polidoro da Caravaggio in 1525/26. The print shows a large trophy with a Roman centurion helmet. The helmet is characterized by two sphinxes and a lion supporting the plume. The helmet is flanked by shields. In a semispherical compartment below the helmet the inscriptions have been placed.

Plate from "Divers Trophées" (Weapon Trophies after the Façade of Palazzo Milesi in Rome), Polidoro da Caravaggio (Italian, Caravaggio ca. 1499–ca. 1543 Messina), Engraving

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