Pope Alexander III presents Doge Ziani with standards and bugles after his defeat of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, from "Il gran Teatro di Venezia" (The great theater of Venice)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 3/16 × 19 5/16 in. (36.1 × 49 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.2506
About the Artist
Anonymous|Pope Alexander III|Giulio Angolo del Moro|Domenico Lovisa|Sebastiano Ziani Doge of Venice
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