Vase with Helios or Phaeton on the Chariot of the Sun
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Depiction of a vase or ewer. The vase is abundantly decorated with motifs from the Fontainebleau School. Within a strapwork frame in the middle a male god, either Helios or Phaeton is depicted riding the Chariot of the sun. The print is part of a series of 12 vases said to be designed by Rosso Fiorentino and Polidoro da Caravaggio and initially engraved and published by René Boyvin. The current series was first published by Claes Jansz. Visscher in the early seventeenth century and subsequently also by Frederik de Wit.
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