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Mythology & Putti

Mythology & Putti

Envy driven out of the Temple by the Muses

c.1530-1550

Engraving | RCIN 851857

An engraving after a (lost) design traditionally attributed to Baldassarre Peruzzi. Signed on plate with the engraver's monogram at lower right (a die with the letter B; see Nagler, I, no.1563). Lettered with eight lines of verse below image, and publisher's address at lower left.

The composition was reproduced by Ugo da Carpi in a chiaroscuro woodcut, a second state of which can be found at RCIN 851858. For a discussion on the relationship between Ugo's chiaroscuro and the engraving by the Master of the Die, see Bibliographic References.

Bartsch and Ruland described the subject as 'Envy chased from the Temple by the Muses'. Recent scholarship follows Vasari in indentifying the female figure driven out of the temple with Avarice (see Gnann in Oberhuber/Gnann 1999).
  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)