About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Circle of Giovanni Guerra
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Title
- Design for Emblematic Frontispiece: "Natura Ars Emula Vincit"
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1544–1618
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Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and blue wash, with traces of graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on card; verso on mount: in pen and black ink (in later hand), elevation of a column
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, in drawing, in ink, upper left: "MEDI_"; upper center: "IHS"; upper right: "PHIL_"; upper center, left to right: "VS VITÆ ET VIRTVS VIRIVM"; middle left: "HOMOS"; middle right: "VIRTVS"; bottom center, left to right: "NATVRĀ ARS EMVLA VINCIT"; bottom left: "MATEM"; bottom right: "ASTRO"; inscribed in ink at base, below image (illegible)
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Dimensions
- 28.5 × 18.7 cm (11 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 1922.3874
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/3948/manifest.json