POMEDELLI, Giovanni Maria
(b. ca. 1478, Villafranca di Verona, d. 1537)

Allegory of Quietude

1510
Engraving, 150 x 145 mm
British Museum, London

This allegory depicts a naked woman lying down resting on her right arm, at the right is a boar pierced by an arrow, below is a greyhound, at left a porcupine, set within a landscape. The scene shows the rest after the hunt.




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