Antique Master Print-Vases-Masks-Griffins-Bull-Alberti-Da Caravaggio-1582 After Cherubino Alberti Master Prints > By Famous Engravers,Prints By Category > Architecture-Design

Vessel with grotesque masks, griffins, and a frieze populated by a bull and men in bas-relief (reverse copy after Cherubino Alberti, in turn after Polidoro da Caravaggio). Plate 5 from the series of ten prints depicting Vases.Made by after Cherubino Alberti after Polidoro da Caravaggio.Medium: Engraving on handlaid paper.Sheet size: 17.3 x 25 cm (6.81 x 9.84 inch). Image size: 16.3 x 24 cm. (6.42 x 9.45 inch).VASES-VESSEL-MASKS-GRIFFINS-FRIEZE-BULL | EXPO-ITALIANBACKGROUND INFORMATIONFrom a 16th.c. Dutch mannierm work.Biography engraver: Cherubino Alberti (1553-1615), also called Borghegiano, was an Italian engraver and painter. He is most often remembered for the Roman frescoes completed with his brother Giovanni Alberti during the papacy of Clement VIII. He was most prolific as an engraver of copper plates.Biography artist: Polidoro Caldara, usually known as Polidoro da Caravaggio (c.1499-1543) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, "arguably the most gifted and certainly the least conventional of Raphael's pupils", who was best known for his now-vanished paintings on the facades of Roman houses. He was unrelated to the later painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, usually known just as Caravaggio, but both came from the town of Caravaggio. Condition: good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.