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Flora Stung by a Bee

Johann Friedrich Greuter, Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini), and others

Flora Stung by a Bee

1627-1637

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Flora Stung by a Bee

Johann Friedrich Greuter, Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini), and others

Flora Stung by a Bee

Flora Stung by a Bee

1627-1637

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 233 x 165 mm. (9 3/16 x 6 1/2 in.) Plate: 207 x 152 mm. (8 1/8 x 6 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.2039
Greuter engraved seven allegorical plates after da Cortona, Lanfranco, Sacchi, and Guido Reni, representing episodes from the legend of Flora; the book was first published by Stefano Paulino in Rome in 1633 in Latin and Italian editions, with an Italian edition published in 1638. Six plates from the series are in the Garrett Collection (1945.112.2037 - 1946.112.2042).

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower center, in plate "Petrus Berettin: Corts. delin. Io. Federic: Greuter incid."

Markings: CM: Claghorn, Garrett WM: partial, unidentified

Artist

Johann Friedrich Greuter

1589–1661

German, active in Italy,1590/93-1662,
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Artist

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)

1595–1668

Italian, 1596-1669
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Publisher

Stefano Paulino

1629–1629

Italian, active 1630s
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GIROLAMO TETI PRESENTING A COPY OF HIS BOOK TO POPE URBAN VIII
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MY ROLE HAS BEEN IMPORTANT IN ORGANIZING THE UNORGANIZED
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1946
JUPITER AND THE OLYMPIAN GODS BANQUETTING
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1627–1637
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1100–1299
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Johann Friedrich Greuter, Andrea Sacchi, and others
Flora Attended by the Seasons, Changing Limax and Bruchus into Animals
1627–1637
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1627–1637
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