Street Seller of Pious Prints and Rosaries, Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, after Annibale Carracci, 1660
etching, h 280mm × w 191mm More details
This Italian print seller illustrates the ambivalent way women were perceived at the time. With his left hand, he holds up a print of the Virgin Mary, while the print in his right hand features fighting swordsmen, with a Latin text underneath referring to the biblical Eve. She is said to have brought evil into the world by eating an apple, with Adam, from the Tree of Wisdom in Paradise.
