
Triton and Two Infant Satyrs, plate four from Twelve Ornament Panels
<p>This print exemplifies a type of ornamental design that enjoyed wide popularity in the 15th and 16th centuries. Featuring fanciful decorative vases, fragments of armor, symmetrical acanthus scrolls, fantastic creatures, and frolicking putti, it was inspired by painted and carved architectural decorations from Roman antiquity. A significant number of very early engravings depict ornamental designs, suggesting there was considerable demand for them among artists, craftsmen, scholars, and collectors interested in the classical past.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1505
- Dimensions
- Plate: 53.1 × 8.5 cm (20 15/16 × 3 3/8 in.); Sheet: 55.2 × 11.5 cm (21 3/4 × 4 9/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist

Painting
Giovanni Antonio da Brescia was an Italian engraver of northern Italy, active in the approximate period 1490–1519, during the Italian Renaissance. In his early career he used the initials "Z.A." to sign some twenty engravings, and until recently Zoan Andrea was regarded as a distinct printmaker; it is now realized that they are the same person, and the "Z.A." stood for Giovanni Antonio, "Zovanni" being a north Italian spelling. Around 1507 he began to use formulae such as "IO.AN.BX.", and signed some prints more fully. The real Zoan Andrea was a very obscure painter, documented as working in Mantua in the 1470s, who produced no engravings.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1505
- Dimensions
- Plate: 53.1 × 8.5 cm (20 15/16 × 3 3/8 in.); Sheet: 55.2 × 11.5 cm (21 3/4 × 4 9/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1505-126040
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





