Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot, Study for a Fresco in the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash highlighted with white, squared in black chalk
Dimensions
7 1/2 x 4 7/16in. (19 x 11.2cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1984
Accession Number
1984.413
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About the Artist
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · 1501–1547
Perino del Vaga, born Piero Bonaccorsi in 1501 near Florence, emerged as one of the most elegant painters of the Mannerist era. Orphaned early—his mother died when he was two months old and his father, a gambler turned soldier, left him in the care of a stepmother—Perino received an unconventional start, apprenticed first to a druggist and then to the mediocre Andrea de' Ceri. At age eleven, he en...