Framed Antique Print of Gonfaloniere di Giustizia (Standard Bearer of Justice)

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Engraved by Teodoro Viero (1740–1819), an Italian printmaker and publisher active in Venice. Born in Bassano, he trained with the Venetian engraver Niccolò Cavalli. He published a significant number of engravings by the great Venetian masters such as Canaletto, Tiepolo or Piazzeta. Gonfaloniere de Giustrizia was a post in the government of medieval and early Renaissance Florence. The position was one of the nine citizens selected by drawing lots every two months to form the government of Florence. Pictured here is Giovanni di Rustichello, who was the Gonfaloniere de Giustrizia in April and May of 1317. To distinguish the Gonfaloniere de Giustrizia from his other eight colleagues, he wore crimson coat embroidered with golden stars and lined with ermine. Show more