Three Children Blowing Horns (c. 1505–1512): Art, History and Details

Three Children Blowing Horns (c. 1505–1512) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Giovanni Pietro da Birago (Italian, active c. 1471–1513).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Printed ornamental columns were probably colored and used for interior decorations. The printed panels may have also served artists and craftsmen creating similar patterns in other materials, including wood, stone, or metal.

Object facts

• Title: Three Children Blowing Horns
• Date: c. 1505–1512
• Creator attribution: Giovanni Pietro da Birago (Italian, active c. 1471–1513)
• Culture: Italy, early 16th Century
• Type: Print
• Technique: engraving
• Collection: PR - Engraving
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1934.181

Collection credit

The Norweb Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Parsse, Leona. "Three Arabesque Panel Engravings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 21, no. 7 (July 1934): 109-111.

View the collection record

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