Allegory with symbols of Prudence, with two bears and Fabius Cunctator; after Pietro da Cortona's frescoes on the ceiling of the salone of Palazzo Barberini
Probably extracted from a copy of Girolamo Teti's, 'Aedes Barberinae ad Quirinalem a comite Hieronymo Tetio Perusino descriptae'.
Artwork Details
- Title: Allegory with symbols of Prudence, with two bears and Fabius Cunctator; after Pietro da Cortona's frescoes on the ceiling of the salone of Palazzo Barberini
- Artist: After Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596–1669 Rome)
- Date: ca. 1642
- Medium: Etching and engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 14 in. × 14 11/16 in. (35.5 × 37.3 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941
- Object Number: 41.97.436
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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