The inscription quotes a verse from Hannibal's speech in the Odes by Horace ("Should you sink it in the depth, it will come out more beautiful")

Merses profundo, pulchrior evenit (or The Risen)

Adolfo De Carolis

  • Technique: Woodcut on paper

  • Date: Not dated (reprinted in 1974)

  • Size: mm 502 x 350

  • Location: Not currently on display

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Merses profundo, pulchrior evenit (or The Risen)

Adolfo De Carolis

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