Identification title(s): festa della sensa (eighth part). Ankunfft und herkommen der weitberümbten herrlichen statt venedig sambt derselben gewaltigen herrschafft. Object type: print object number: rp-p-ob-21. 365. Catalog reference: new hollstein german (amman) 244. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 240 number, recto lower left, handwritten in brown ink: '14'. Description: procession of the doge on ascension day across st. Mark's square in venice. The procession leads to the bucintoro, the doge's galley. Once a year, during the festa della sensa, the doge ceremonially 'married' the adriatic sea by throwing a ring into the water from this galley. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: jost amman, publisher: johann valentin schäller. Place of manufacture: printmaker: nuremberg, publisher: frankfurt am main. Date: 1679. Material: paper technique: woodcut. Dimensions: top: h 433 mm × w 345 mm, image: h 382 mm × w 272 mmexplanationeighth part of a large representation of the festa della sensa. The performance is printed from fourteen blocks, the title from five blocks and the caption consists of five parts of three columns of german text each. The rijksmuseum collection contains two complete copies, including title and caption. The fourteen blocks that make up the performance are numbered in the titles clockwise from the top left. Subject: what: procession ~ christian religiongondolalion (possibly with book) ~ symbol of st. Markbanner, standard (as symbol of the state, etc. ), city-view in general; 'veduta'. Where: torre dell'orologio, doge's palace. Patriarchal cathedral basilica of st. Mark, st. Mark's square, venice. Acquisition: transfer of management 1816. Date: 1679.
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