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One of the most important of these is the stylised scrolling foliage of the acanthus plant with its characteristically spiky-edged leaves. Also crammed into this fantastical composition are a strange creature, half-woman, half-plant; cherubs; cornucopias (horns of plenty); military standards; and at the centre, a two-handled vase. The arrangement is more or less symmetrical about a vertical line up the centre of the print but the left half and the right half do not match each other exactly.   For example, of the two women seated at the top we see the front of one and the back of the other. One of the women grasps a snake but the other does not.\r\n\r\nThis type of composition combining human, natural and ornamental elements often with curious relations of scale, in a way that could never exist in real life, is known as grotesque. 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Italian, Rome, 1532-53.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Miller, Elizabeth. <u>16th century Italian ornament prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>. London, 1999. pp.85-87, cat 28b, plate 3, with reference to other literature."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bartsch, A., <u>Le Peintre-Graveur</u>, 21 vols, Vienna, 1803-21, vol. 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