Head of an allegorical female figure of Health

Head of an allegorical female figure of Health. A woman with her hair intricately braided like flames, as represented by the Gnostic Copts of Egypt. From a red jasper gem. Testa simbolica rappresentante il Genio della Salute. Copperplate engraving by Joseph Testana after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de'Lazari, Rome, 1699

1699 17th Century Allegorical Braids Classical Mythology Coptic Copts Filososi Giovanni Angelo Canini Gnostic Greek Myth Iconografia Ignatio Delazari Joseph Testana Orator Poeti Ed Oratori Dell Antichita Red Jasper Regi Roman Myth

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