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AGOSTINO VENEZIANO (after Rosso Fiorentino) Allegory of Death and Fame.
Engraving, 1516-18. 291x502 mm; 11 1/2x19 3/4 inches. Crowned double-headed eagle watermark (Briquet 254, which dates to circa 1580). Ex-collection Robert Johannes Meyer (Lugt 4536, verso). Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark. A very good, dark impression of this large, scarce and important Renaissance engraving.
According to Landau/Parshall, this is likely the earliest design executed by Rosso (1494-1540) expressly for Veneziano to engrave and issue to a wider public. As the authors note, this was one of the largest and most complex compositions yet attempted in western printmaking, certainly a gambit by the Florentine master, at the height of his career, to gain greater fame throughout Europe (Landau/Parshall, The Renaissance Print, London, 1994, p. 160). Bartsch 424.
