Allegory of Envy
c. 1505
Medium
Engraving on paper
Dimensions
23.3 × 18 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4373
Art Historical Context
Cristofano Robetta's *Allegory of En*, created around 1505, is a engraving on paper measuring 23.3 × 18 cm, housed in the Art Institute of's Prints and Drawings Department As an early 16th-century Italian artist from Florence, Robetta was a master engraver influenced by the Renaissance's fascination with classical antiquity and moral allegories. This print exemplifies the period's use of personified vices to convey ethical lessons, with Envy depicted as aary figure amid symbolic elements that would have resonated with Renaissance viewers steeped in humanist thought and Christian morality. Eng...