File:Giovanni Andrea Podesta - Venus embracing Adonis.jpg

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Giovanni Andrea Podestà: Venus embracing Adonis   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Giovanni Andrea Podestà  (1608–)  wikidata:Q3766406
 
Alternative names
Giovanni Andrea Podesta
Description Italian painter and engraver
Date of birth/death 1608 / circa  Edit this at Wikidata 1674
Location of birth/death Genoa Genoa
Work period Baroque
era QS:P2348,Q37853
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artist QS:P170,Q3766406
Title
Venus embracing Adonis
Date 1661
date QS:P571,+1661-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium etching on paper
Dimensions height: 43.4 cm (17 in); width: 54.4 cm (21.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,43.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,54.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Inscriptions Before any letters, but with an inscription in brown ink in tiny letters in lower margin, apparently in the hand of the etcher, 'All'Illmo Sig Abbate de Nizoro [?], Andrea de Podesta DD questa sua opera, Roma 1661'
Source/Photographer http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1432638&partId=1&searchText=Giovanni+Andrea+Podesta&page=1

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