Carnaval te Florence: infanteriegevecht

1616 · Print

May one see it?

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.

Source: The museum's own collection data

On the map Museum page

About the work

In the museum's own words — in Dutch

Gezicht op de Piazza Santa Croce in Florence, waar soldaten een schijngevecht uitvoeren voor toeschouwers, die op in ovaalvorm geplaatst tribunes zitten. Dit gevecht vond plaats tijdens het carnavalsfeest 'Guerra d'Amore', dat Cosimo II de' Medici in 1616 in Florence gaf. Onder de voorstelling twee regels Italiaanse tekst.

Rijksmuseum

Particulars

Accession number: RP-P-OB-20.859

What it shows

Cosimo II de' Medici Hand-to-hand fighting (~ battle)Carnival, Shrovetide (non-liturgical celebration)Village square, place Florence Piazza Santa Croce

In the catalog

Prints Baroque 17th century

Sources

Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 7 days ago
Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain

Meanwhile, in the life of Jacques Callot

The whole life

1611–1621 · Workplace
Florence
1614–1621
At the court of Cosimo II de’ Medici
Under Parigi’s direction Callot works at the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo II de’ Medici in the Uffizi, designing festivals and theatrical performances — later these give him themes for his series of grotesque prints; during his Florentine years he becomes an independent master and often works for the Medici.
1617
Switches to hard ground and repeated biting
From 1617 Callot uses, instead of the soft ground customary until then, the acid-resistant hard ground of Florentine joiners and furniture-makers; it allows the plate to be bitten repeatedly, with parts of the spatial planes successively covered by varnish, and gives broad tonal gradations; he is also credited with the échoppe, an etching needle with a slanted end that produces a swelling line.

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