La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 15 (recto)

Publisher Giovanni Ostaus Italian
 Woodcut of Lucrezia designed by Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati) Italian

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Published by Giovanni Ostaus, Venice, woodcut of Lucrezia designed by Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati), Italian, Castelnuova di Garfagnana ca. 1520-1575 Venice.
From top to bottom, and left to right:
Design composed of 2 horizontal registers that are printed upon a grid. Top register is decorated with coiling vines of leaves and flowers that form a heart shape at the bottom, attached to which are 2 symmetrical gargoyle figures. Bottom register is decorated with curving vines of flowers and grapes that emanate from 2 cornucopias below; interspersed throughout the vines are birds that feed off of the grapes and fruit in the cornucopias.

La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 15 (recto), Giovanni Ostaus (Italian, active Venice ca. 1554–91) , Venice, Woodcut

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