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Sunday, October 8, 2023

That’s a peg-head!

 


The Manneirist art of Girolamo da Virchis




The richly ornamented peg-box of the cittern made in 1563 by Girolamo da Virchis, a “citeraro” from Brescia, for Archduke Ferdinand of Tirol, showing Lucretia, who is emerging from a dragon’s mouth, elegantly thrusts a dagger into her bosom from wich blood is beginning to stream. This wild jumble of horrific, ugly and beautiful features is characteristic of the Manneirist age in Europe.




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