print
- Museum number
- 1925,1117.112
- Title
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Object: Franciscus Petrarchus Florentinus
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Series: Virorum Doctorum de Disciplinis benemerentium Effigies XLIIII (1572b)
- Description
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Portrait of the poet Francesco Petrarca, bust seen frontal; head towards the right; in circular frame; after Giorgio Vasari. 1572
Engraving
- Production date
- 1572
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres
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Width: 123 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the portrait series see 1925,1117.75. This series is bound in a volume with works by Suavius, works after Lombard, Floris and Michael Coxcie and works by Galle and Collaert, see 157*.a.26 (1925,1117. 19-159); for comment on the volume see 1925,1117.19.
The portrait is taken from the engraving after Giorgio Vasari's painting of the six Tuscan poets in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, inv.no. G341.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Acquisition notes
- for comment see 1925,1117.19
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1925,1117.112