Perseus with the head of Medusa turning into stone Polydectes and his army. Engraving by C. Alberti after Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1525.

  • Polidoro, da Caravaggio, approximately 1495-approximately 1543.
Date:
[between 1600 and 1609?]
Reference:
2475262i
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Publication/Creation

[Rome] : [publisher not identified], [between 1600 and 1609?]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; sheet 16 x 23.5 cm

Lettering

Polydorus de Caravagio invent. Quod vultus mutent homines in saxa Medusae, Hoc adversa facit forma pudicitiae. Cherub. Albertu. Cum privilegio Summi Pontificis.

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre-graveur, Vienna 1818, vol. XVII, Alberti no. 111, p. 86 ("110-112. Frises peintes par Polydore de Caravage. Suite de trois estampes. Au bas de chacune de ces pièces est un cartouche qui offre un distique Latin, et les deux inscriptions suivantes: Polydorus de Caravagio invent., et Cum priuilegio Summi Pontificis, … 111. Persée changeant en pierre ceux qui étoient venus troubler ses noces, en leur présentant la tête de Méduse. Quod vultus mutent etc. On lit à la gauche d'en bas : Cherub. Albertus. Largeur:8 p. 6 lign. Hauteur: 5 p. 4 lign.")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2475262i

Reproduction note

After a frieze on Casino del Bufalo, near the Trevi fountain, Rome, which was demolished in 1885: this section of the frieze survived subsequently in Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi

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