Carnival in the streets of Rome
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Carnival in the streets of Rome, to scale
80 × 80 mm, beside a 1.8 m figure.
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Carnival in the streets of Rome

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Catalogue ID1.74
Artist Master of the Roman Songbook (1650-1660); Domenico Jacovacci (1604-1661); Lieven Cruyl (1634-1720) (Formerly attributed to)
Object type drawing
Dateca. 1650
Collection Unknown present location
Tech. / supportink, paper, pen
Measures80 × 80 mm
Subject25I141 — street
41D2421 — masquerade, masked ball
43A122 — Carnival, Shrovetide (non-liturgical celebration)
48C7324 — cithern, mandolin, guitar, balalaika

on verso last few verses of Luigi Rossi’s Chi consiglia un dubbio core.

No musical work linked.

Bianco, Anna. Images for the Music: Drawings and secular cantatas. Ph.D. dissertation, Leiden University, 2025

Bianco, Anna. “The Master of the Roman Songbook.” Going South: Artistic Exchange between the Netherlands and Italy in the 17th Century, vol. IX, RKD & NIKI, 2023.

Unknown present location — from 2022 current