Virtus Combusta; Virtus Deserta (Ignorance and Mercury: An Allegory of Virtue and Vice)

Artist: Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, Italian, c.1460–c.1520
After: Andrea Mantegna, Italian, c.1431–1506
Date: c.1500–5
Material: Engraving
made in: Italy, Europe
Classification: Prints
Collection: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: plate (upper platemark): 11 3/4 × 17 1/16 in. (29.8 × 43.3 cm)
sheet (upper sheet): 12 in. × 17 5/16 in. (30.5 × 44 cm)
sheet (lower sheet): 11 3/4 × 17 1/8 in. (29.8 × 43.5 cm)
framed (lender's frame for exhibition 2017): 33 5/8 × 28 in. (85.4 × 71.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mark Steinberg Weil and Phoebe Dent Weil
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 203:2021

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