Italian, Rome, sixteenth century

The Farnese Table

ca. 1565-73 per the Museum's own date line; the curatorial entry argues a floor of 1566 from the arms and a ceiling of 1573 from Vignola's death. The machine record carries a bracket beginning 1560. - Marble of different colours, semiprecious stones, Egyptian alabaster, with residue of paint of different colours on the piers