Allegorische Darstellung der Porta Virtutis

Title

Allegorische Darstellung der Porta Virtutis

Period Produced

• 16th century
• 17th century

School

• Italian Mannerism

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• paper

Technique

• brush drawing

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• copy?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Bezeichnet als Beischriften über die Zeichnung verteilt von oben links nach unten rechts (mit der Feder in Braun): porta virtutis / [unleserlich] / diseg[n]io // colorito / inuen / zione // decoro / faricha // [unleserlich] // diligentia / intelige / zia // roma / sic semper / adula / zione // persua / zione // minis / zio della / inuidio / skiri / zo // [unleserlich] / di mala / licen / za // [unleserlich] / zio / prospectiua / pictura / Ignorantia crasa. // [unleserlich]ligni // se[unleserlich] delli [unleserlich]

Captions Added Later

Unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Nicht feststellbar

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1908

Genre

• architecture
• allegory

Primary

• 96A5(VIRTUS)(+7) Virtus as Roman personification (+ specific aspects, allegorical aspects)
• 48C1451 'Architekturbild'
• 43A422 triumphal arch
• 11K4(+0) activities of devil(s) (+ variant)

Alternative Attribution

• Federico Zuccari draughtsman; by literature
• Unknown, 16th century draughtsman; by note on mount
• after Federico Zuccari inventor; by note on mount

Historic Attribution

• Pietro Testa draughtsman