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Jan Caspar Philips - Cartouche met allegorie op de Joodse geschiedenis
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De Joodse maagd wordt door drie soldaten belaagd. Op de achtergrond de verwoesting van Rome. Links op de voorgrond twee putti, één met de Turkse halve maan in de hand, die de opkomst en ondergang van de wereldrijken verbeelden (het Partische, Perzische en Syrische Rijk). In de omlijsting van de cartouche medaillons met bijbelse voorstellingen.
A cartouche or cartouch is an oval design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low relief design. In Early Modern design, since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartoccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling (illustration, left). Another cartouche figures prominently in the title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery cartoccia.
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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