Portrait of Pope Pius V in an architectural setting

Engraved by Mario Cartaro  (Italian, born Viterbo, active Rome ca. 1557–88, died 1620)

Date:
1567
Medium:
Engraving
Dimensions:
sheet: 20 7/8 x 15 13/16 in. (53 x 40.2 cm). Trimmed just inside platemark.
Classification:
Prints
Credit Line:
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number:
49.97.532
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: In plate, lower right: Monogram

    Inscription: In plate, center, around portrait: "PIUS V GHISLERIUS ALEXAND ORD PRADICATOR PONT O M AET AN LXIII PONT SUI AN II M D LXVII" Portrait flanked by religious and allegorical figures bearing other various Latin inscriptions. In plate, lower right: "ROMAE M D LXVII / Ex Typis Bart Phaletij"

    Marking: Stamp on verso: "Doublette der Albertina"

  • Provenance

    Graphische Sammlung Albertina

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    B.XV.529.21; TIB.XXXI.423.21; Cattaneo vol. II p. 5 no. 48

90043880

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