A drawing of four men, three of them in antique military garb, standing over a terrestrial globe. Inscribed, lower right: di Briccio.

A study for an etching of 1621 by Brizio, reproduced by H. Brauer in Berliner Museum, NF VI, 1957, p. 32; the motif was reused in an engraving by Oliviero Gatti of 1622 (crediting Brizio with the invention).

P. Kristeller (Thieme-Becker, v, p. 33) describes an etching in the Berlin Print Room with 'a Scholar and three Warriors bending over a Globe', signed Franc, Bricc^ius inv et fecit. Although no reproduction is available it seems likely that the present drawing is a working drawing for this etching. The group of the four persons with the globe recurs in reverse in a large allegorical engraving with the coat-of-arms of the Bolognese family Pistorini (Paris, Bibl. Nationale XXIII, fol. 10, among the engravings of Agostino Carracci; Figure 3). The subject of the engraving is the Second Triumvirate concluded near Bologna in 43 bc. when Augustus, Antony, and Lepidus divided the Roman Empire between themselves. The subject has also been interpreted as Noah and his sons.