Allegory with a Woman in Roman Dress on a Triumphal Chariot
after 1520
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 9.7 × 8 cm (3 7/8 × 3 3/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202425
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Religion, piracy, and print technology intersect in Allaert Claesz’s reinvention of a detail from Marcantonio Raimondi’s Quos Ego, itself after Raphael, from the poet Virgil’s Trojan War epic. Raimondi’s print showed the goddess Venus pleading with Jupiter for her son Aeneas’s life, so that he can fulfill his destiny of founding Rome. Rather than reusing this pagan content in an exact reverse copy, Claesz has instead turned it into a Christian Triumph. God the Father and the crucified Christ app...