Many figures including a woman identified as Venus gambling with Cupid, evidence of torture and tumult. Engraving.

  • Bandinelli, Baccio, 1493-1560.
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Many figures including a woman identified as Venus gambling with Cupid, evidence of torture and tumult. Engraving. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Identified by Bartsch as depicting Venus playing dice with Cupid for the liberty and hearts of human beings. Cumberland apparently identified the central figure as Medea

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1 print : engraving

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Lettering in pencil on mount: "Medea performing incantations. So described by Cumberland pa. 395 of his Crit. Catal. who says it has twenty-four lines of poetry underneath. The design of this print is attributed by some to B. Bandinelli. See the Peintre Graveur, Vol. XV. p. 54. no. X of Annonymous Engravers of the School of Marc Antonio, No. II"

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre-graveur, vol. 15, Würzburg 1922, p. 30, no. 11

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Wellcome Collection 37651i

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