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Festival in Florence: pageant wagon with Mount Parnassus
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Festival in Florence: pageant wagon with Mount Parnassus

Jacques Callot · 1616 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Pageant wagon in the form of Mount Parnassus, upon which among others the horse Pegasus, musicians and Fame. This structure was made for the festivities 'Guerra di Bellezza', which Cosimo II de' Medici gave in Florence in 1616 on the occasion of the arrival of Federico della Rovere, the prince of Urbino and the fiancé of his sister Claudia. At the top of the image a banner with Italian text.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printCosimo II de' MediciFederico Ubaldo della Roverechariot, triumphal carFama as Roman personificationFlorencePiazza Santa Croce
Credit lineFeest te Florence: praalwagen met de berg Parnassus. 1616. Jacques Callot. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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