Il Mondo alla Riversa (The World Turned Upside Down)

Artist:: Nicolò Nelli (Italian, active Venice, ca. 1552–79)

Date:: 1552–79

Medium:: Engraving

Dimensions:: sheet: 15 1/16 x 19 3/16 in. (38.3 x 48.8 cm)

Classification:: Prints

Credit Line:: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Accession Number:: 59.570.347

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Department

Drawings and Prints (152,586)

Artist / Maker / Culture

Nicolò Nelli (15)

Object Type / Material

Geographic Location

Date / Era

A.D. 1400–1600 (26,277)

Venerable Idleness, Queen of Cockaigne; a fat woman seated on a movable toilet chair being waited on and fed by seven women

Artist: Nicolò Nelli (Italian, active Venice, ca. 1552–79) Date: 1565 Medium: Engraving Accession: 59.570.345 On view in:Not on view

Bust profile portrait of Catherine de' Medici in an ornamented frame,from 'Portraits of some princes and illustrious people' ('Ritratti di alcuni prencipi, et huomini illustri'; also titled 'Imagines quorundam principum et illustrium virorum'), published by Bolognino Zaltieri in Venice in 1568

Artist: Nicolò Nelli (Italian, active Venice, ca. 1552–79) Date: 1567 Medium: Engraving Accession: 2012.136.288 On view in:Not on view

Bust portrait of Ferdinando Francesco de Avalos, marquis of Pescara, in an oval ornamented frame

Artist: Nicolò Nelli (Italian, active Venice, ca. 1552–79) Date: 1568 Medium: Engraving Accession: 2012.136.287 On view in:Not on view

Bust portrait of Ottavio Farnese, shown in profile within a niche, surrounded by an ornamented cartouche

Artist: Nicolò Nelli (Italian, active Venice, ca. 1552–79) Date: 1567 Medium: Engraving Accession: 2012.136.289 On view in:Not on view

Libro de marchi de cavalli con li nomi de tutti li principi et privati signori che hanno razza di cavalli

Artist: Published by Nicolò Nelli (Italian, active Venice, ca. 1552–79) Date: 1569 Medium: Printed book with engraved plates Accession: 57.656 On view in:Not on view