https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/execution-ballads/files/original/b53d7077d8176cb069b8411cc8e5df13.png 6d3122cdac15ea1b15927bddbe287335 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artworks Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Engraving print on paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Le Barbarie del mondo Description An account of the resource <p><em>Le barbarie del mondo,</em> by Hieronymous Porro (fl 1574-1604), depicts Italian street people collected under the unkind general heading of  "barbarism of the world". I misread the description of the actions of the people in the print (found at the University of Texas website below) as “Making a living doing unnecessary tasks of nothing”—a harsh appraisal of the efforts of people who have nothing trying to make a little bit of change for bread, though it does describe the general sentiment of the print, wrong or not. Though the written descriptions are slightly kinder than this, the depictions of the social unfortunates was certainly not. </p> <p>The people described in this image--the collection of unfortunates,a veritable museum of social "outcasts"--include fools, street laborers, merchants, the disabled, prostitutes, destitute women (with children), musicians, street performers, flagellants, religious zealots, and general beggars, not to mention what must've been alley dwellers, street-sleepers and the homeless.</p> <p>Not too much different from today. What makes this image remarkable to me is that it makes these generally invisible people visible, gathered together in one image.  Generally these people would be used occasionally as found objects, tertiary depictions in larger, grander artworks showing grand structures or town views, the people used to show scale, and the artist taking some small liberty by employing street people as the scale units rather than landed strollers. (See <a href="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2008/09/jf-ptak-scien-5.html">here</a> for an example.) Holbein, de Hooghe, Bruegel--masters of the large gathering and crowds, did not attempt a solitary image to the underclasses' underclass.</p> <p>[Source:  <a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00484/hrc-00484p1.html">Harry Ransom</a> Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.]</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Girolamo (Hieronymous) Porro 1574 - 1604 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived From the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-22 October 1657); inherited by his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); sold by Carlo Antonio's grandson to Clement XI, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani by 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c.1567-1599 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less.