The Allegory of Life
Giorgio Ghisi, Italian, 1520 - 1582
1561
Engraving on laid paper
Plate: 15 × 21 3/8 in. (38.1 × 54.3 cm)
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 21 1/2 in. (38.7 × 54.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jane and W. David Dance, Class of 1940
PR.987.64.2
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in plate, near center: GEORGIVS/ GHISIMAT/ F.1561; inscribed, in plate, above and left of signature [in rectangle]: SEDET A TERNVM/ QUESEDEBIT I FOELIX: Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Paul CS de la Houue excudit.; inscribed, in plate, lower left: RAPHAELIS VRBINATIS INVENTVM/ PHILIPPVS DATVS ANIMI GRATIA/ FIERI IVSSIT [in rectangle]; inscribed, in plate, lower right: TV NE CEDE MALIS: SED/ COTRA AVDENTIORITO
Course History
FRIT 34, Sex and Gender in the Italian Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ITAL 7, Women in Renaissance Venice, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 44.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 44.
Provenance
Christie's, London; sold to Robert Dance, December, 1985; Jane (1922-2007) and W. David Dance (1917-2012); given to the present collection, 1987.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 67; Boorsch/Lewis 28
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