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Sposalizio del gobbo nan.

Title
Sposalizio del gobbo nan.
Author
Floreani, Giovanni, 1486-1540.
Publication
[Udine? 153-?]

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Details

Description
Engraving, colored; image with text: 22.5 x 15 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Lincoln Kirstein Collection.
Note
  • Lower center: Gio. flor. for.
  • Two scenes from the wedding of the hunchbacked dwarf. Upper illustration: Dwarf, his wife and guests around table; food cooking on a spit, a cat and dog on the floor searching for food. Lower illustration: dwarf dancing with his unattractive wife to the accompaniment of a viola da gamba, bagpipe, lute, tambourine, and flute. She holds her right hand in his, lifting her dress with her left hand.
  • Possibly an eighteenth-century engraving after a woodcut book illustration by Giovanni Floreani.
Call Number
*MGZFD Flo G 1
OCLC
NYPY737047705-F
Author
Floreani, Giovanni, 1486-1540.
Title
Sposalizio del gobbo nan.
Imprint
[Udine? 153-?]
Local Note
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Local Subject
Dance -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Prints (Graphic arts) -- Social dancing -- 16th century.
Social dancing -- 16th century.
Research Call Number
*MGZFD Flo G 1
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