Vase with a Sacrificial Scene

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Depiction of a vase or ewer. The vase is caracterized by a frieze with a scene showing putti sacrificing a bull. The print is part of a series of 12 vases said to be designed by Rosso Fiorentino and Polidoro da Caravaggio and initially engraved and published by René Boyvin. The current series was first published by Claes Jansz. Visscher in the early seventeenth century and subsequently also by Frederik de Wit.