Lot 6 Battle of the Amazons. 1559. Burin , 1558
For this engraving, Nicolas Béatrizet, an engraver and goldsmith from Lorraine active in Rome and France, drew his inspiration from a bas-relief seen on a Roman sarcophagus in the Capitoline Hill, now preserved in the Vatican, but also from the accounts of authors such as Strabo and Diodorus Siculus
€1,500 - 1,800
