Allegorical Figures of Experience and Time
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Catalogue
- Year
- 1677
- Medium
- Red chalk
- Dimensions
- 10-1/4 x 7-3/16 in. (26.1 x 18.3 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
Artist
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634–1718) was an Italian engraver and painter of the Baroque period. He was the son of the prominent quadratura painter Agostino Mitelli. The younger Mitelli was best known for his prolific engravings, in a great variety of subjects, including scenes from grand epics to mundane page boards for games of chance using dice, Tarot cards, and an Iconophor with anthropomorphized alphabets. He also engraved genre subjects, allegories, moralistic scenes, but even some bizarre cartoons that could be interpreted as sometimes provocatively subversive, or presciently revolutionary, and sometimes imaginatively bizarre. He often depicted dwarfs engaged in buffoonery or satirical depictions of aphorisms, which recalls the Bambocciate di nani or arte pigmeo of genre painter Faustino Bocchi (1659–1742).
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Record
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- Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
- Year
- 1677
- Medium
- Red chalk
- Dimensions
- 10-1/4 x 7-3/16 in. (26.1 x 18.3 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1677-336236
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified