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View at the museum ↗Allegory with a Woman in Roman Dress on a Triumphal Chariot
Master Allaert Claeszafter 1520
- Attribution
- Allaert Claesz Netherlandish, active c. 1520-55 After Marcantonio Raimondi Italian, 1470/82–1527/34
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 9.7 × 8 cm (3 7/8 × 3 3/16 in.)
- Credit line
- The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
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Source rights statement: Public domain
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Religion, piracy, and print technology intersect in Allaert Claesz’s reinvention of a detail from Marcantonio Raimondi’s Quos Ego , itself after Raphael, from the poet Virgil’s Trojan War epic. Raimondi’s print showed the goddess Venus pleading with Jupiter for her son Aeneas’s life, so that he can fulfill his destiny of founding Rome. Rather than reusing this pagan content in an exact reverse copy, Claesz has instead turned it into a Christian Triumph. God the Father and the crucified Christ appear in a formerly blank bank of clouds, and the woman’s hand stretches out to them in praise, rather than to Jupiter in supplication.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0