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Punishment of Niobe. Plate 3

GALESTRUZZI, Giovanni Battista (Florence, 1619 - Rome, c. 1678), after Polidoro da Caravaggio.
Punishment of Niobe. Plate 3 (5 plates).
Etching, 1656
115x322 mm.

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Bartsch XXI.59.18
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Inscription content: At top 'Polidoro da Caravaggio inven. Gio Batta Galestruzzi fece'. Below 'Dum Sacra Cadmei peragunt Latonia Cives, non patitur Niobe: Vult Sibi thura dari. Quam male? Phebeis nam fixa prole sagittis in Patriam rapitur turbine facta silex.'. Numbered 3 and B, C along bottom with address 'In Roma da Arnoldo Van Westerhout. Con licenza de Superiori'.

Punishment of Niobe after the fresco by Polidoro da Caravaggio for the façade of the Palazzo Milesi, Rome.