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Pandora Opening the Box

Monogrammist Z.B.M., Pirro Ligorio, and others

Pandora Opening the Box

1556

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Pandora Opening the Box

1556

Physical Qualities Etching with engraving, Sheet: 376 × 240 mm. (14 13/16 × 9 7/16 in.) Plate: 373 × 239 mm. (14 11/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 2017.42
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2017; James A. Bergquist, by purchase; Lorenzo (no middle name) Calabi (Milano 11 April 1922-Boston, Mass. 18 January 2016); from his father Augusto Federico Calabi. (Milano 23 May 1890-Loveno, province of Como 13 Oct 1973)
Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest

Inscribed: Recto: at lower left, in plate: "Z.B.M. / 1557"; at lower right, in plate: "D. B."; Verso, lower center, in graphite: "Zoan baths [?]a del Moro / Meyer Künstler [?] 39.) / 1st state"

Markings: WM: unidentified (circle, with letter?)

Artist

Monogrammist Z.B.M.

1499–1599

Italian, 16th century
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Artist

Pirro Ligorio

1512–1582

Italian, c.1513 - 1583
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Artist

Battista Angolo del Moro

1514–1572

Italian, c. 1515 - c. 1573
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