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A woodcut showing the Emperor Maximilian in a triumphal chariot.
This large woodcut, over 2 metres in length, was originally planned as part of a huge printed frieze. The work, undertaken by a team of designers and woodblock cutters, was to show a triumph
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OTTAVIO LEONI (C. 1578-1630)

Cardinal Francesco Barberini

1624

RCIN 809558

Cassiano dal Pozzo served as secretary to Urban VIII’s nephew, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, and either Cassiano or Barberini presumably ordered from Leoni the impression of Barberini’s portrait printed on silk. Cassiano mounted both prints in an album (dismantled in the nineteenth century) devoted to portraits of popes, cardinals and other clergy, ordered in strict hierarchy, from St Peter downwards.


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