Dente Wounded Venus   

Venus removing a thorn from her left foot while seated on a cloth beside trees and foliage, a hare eating grass before her (1516)

by:   Dente      category: Print   
related artifacts: Stufetta central framed fresco 1

note:  Lettered above bottom margin at right: 'Gio. Marco Paluzzi Formis Romae.' and on the rock at lower left '.SR.'This engraving was most likely modeled after the same subject that appeared in both the stufetta of Cardinal Bibbiena and the loggia of the Villa Stati on the Palatine. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/397690