La zingana : comedia
A 1546 Italian comedy printed in Mantua by Venturino Ruffinelli, written by Gigio Artemio Giancarli, probably meant for a literate reading public. Its single picture is a woodcut in an oval frame showing a nude figure with flowing hair and billowing drapery against a sea and distant coastline, signed with a monogram at the lower right. A designer might take from it the oval cartouche format and the sweeping wind-blown lines that give the figure movement.
