Venerable Idleness, Queen of Cockaigne; a fat woman seated on a movable toilet chair being waited on and fed by seven women
Summary
Public domain scan of 17th-18th century Italian print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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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nicolo nelli
engraving
prints
nicolo nelli 1552 1579
venerable idleness
toilet chair
seven women
women
food
eating
the elisha whittelsey collection the elisha whittelsey fund
venerable
idleness
queen
cockaigne
woman
toilet
chair
16th century
italian art
high resolution
ultra high resolution
metropolitan museum of art
medieval art
italian renaissance
apennine peninsula
Date
1565
in collections
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")