Légende
Faustulo pastore educati, Tiirocinia faciunt, Romulus and Remus fighting a lion, Life of Romulus and Remus, print, album page, Romulus and Remus, who were raised by the shepherd Faustulus and his wife Acca Larentia, fighting a lion. In the background a vast landscape with a hunting scene., printmaker: Giovanni Battista Fontana, Italy, 1572 - 1573, paper, etching, height 136 mm x width 181 mm, beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion, landscapes, (story of) Romulus and Remus, when Romulus and Remus are older they go hunting, A detailed black and white engraving shows a wooded foreground with large, textured tree trunks and branches framing the scene, a cloaked figure leaning forward with a staff over another crouched figure who holds a spear, a lion facing the foreground with a mane and raised paw, rolling hills filled with clustered trees extending into the midground, a group of small, running human figures on a slope, a winding path or river cutting through the landscape, distant mountains beneath a sky filled with layered, billowing clouds, and a small sign-like element on the ground near the lower right edge.
Crédit
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Notre référence
LZT26A75_182
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
49.0Mo (12.0Mo) / 39.2cm x 31.3cm / 4632 x 3698 (300dpi)