A winged figure of Death stands in front of a recumbent skeleton and tears out the pages of a book while a crowd of people watch him. Engraving by M. Dente (Marco da Ravenna), 152-, after Rosso Fiorentino and/or B. Bandinelli.

  • Rosso Fiorentino, 1494-1540.
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[between 1500 and 1599]
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36286i
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view A winged figure of Death stands in front of a recumbent skeleton and tears out the pages of a book while a crowd of people watch him. Engraving by M. Dente (Marco da Ravenna), 152-, after Rosso Fiorentino and/or B. Bandinelli.

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A winged figure of Death stands in front of a recumbent skeleton and tears out the pages of a book while a crowd of people watch him. Engraving by M. Dente (Marco da Ravenna), 152-, after Rosso Fiorentino and/or B. Bandinelli. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Rome] : Antonio Salamanca, [between 1500 and 1599]

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1 print : line engraving

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R Bears engraver's initial on left-hand wall: R

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Composition is attributed to Rosso Fiorentino on the evidence of a drawing of a similar composition attributed to him in the Uffizi: Landau and Parshall loc. cit. Bartsch notes that some figures in the present engraving do not appear in the engraving by Agostino Veneziano after Rosso's drawing, and vice versa. The rocks and trees in the present engraving are also absent in the engraving by Agostino after Rosso

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Nieuwkoop 1982, vol. 14, p. 170, no. 425 (as "Les squelettes") by Marco Dente da Ravenna after Baccio Bandinelli
D. Landau and P. Parshall, The renaissance print, New Haven 1994, pp. 159-161 (the version by Agostino Veneziano after a drawing by Rosso, interpreted as an "Allegory of death and fame")

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Wellcome Collection 36286i

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