Title: Ravenna citta in Romagna (Ravenna city in Romagna).
Dimensions: Sheet 2 3/8" x 3 3/8".
Edition: Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo (1434–1520). His Supplementum chronicarum (first printed at Venice, 1483) was a supplement to the usual universal chronicle; it ran to numerous subsequent editions. We identified our print as the same as in edition 'Supplementum supplementi delle croniche del venerando padre frate Iacobo Philippo, dell'ordine Heremitano primo auttore: nouamente reuisto, vulgarizzato, & historiato, & con somma diligentia corretto: con la gionta vltima del 1540 insino al 1552'. The letterpress verso also matches.
Date: 16th Century.
Materials and Techniques: colored woodcut on paper.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Later coloring. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: page CCXCI in 1552 ed. The same woodcut was used for printing "Mithilena citta di Lesbona" (the same ed.) page XXXIIII. "The same image could be used to illustrate more than one text or could even be used more than once in the same text". (Wendy Thompson. The Printed Image in the West: Woodcut. Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2003).
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: Italian School XVI C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from Wikipedia.