Religion and Piety personified,
after Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 – Rome 1669)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1661
Materials
Ink, Paper
Measurements
308 x 210 mm
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 873018.3.46
Summary
(Folio 19, recto, lower print) Religion and Piety personified, followed by putti carrying the emblems of the Vatican, present a book to the Virgin, sitting on clouds on the right; frontispiece to Lancellotti's 'Annales Mariani' (Rome, 1661)
Marks and inscriptions
Lettered with six lines of Latin verse in margin, and in image 'Andrea del Sarto Invent. / Teodoro Cruger Scul.'
Makers and roles
after Pietro da Cortona (Cortona 1596 – Rome 1669), creator