Design for a Candlestick

Unknown (Italian)

Vico, Enea (1523-1567) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

after 1552

Height:

25.6 cm  (10 1/16 in.)

Width:

18.3 cm  (7 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

engraving

Place of creation:

Italia

Description

Design for a candlestick holder including ornamental lyres and faces on the base. There are also two nude human figures making up the stem and faces of men and animals decorating it.

Iconclass

41B313 candlestick

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Miller, Elizabeth. 16th-Century Italian ornament prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London: V & A Publications, 1999) 218, cat. 62c. ISBN: 9781851772636.

Barryte, Bernard. Myth, allegory, and faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist Prints (Stanford, CA: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2015) app. 161. ISBN: 9788836630882.

RIdIM record id

5487