Allegory of the Medici Family with river gods in the foreground and in the clouds at right
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 10 7/16 in. (25.7 × 26.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.601.179
Tags
SoldiersMenWomen
About the Artist
Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)|Jacopo Ligozzi · 1553–1615
Cherubino Alberti (1553–1615), also known by his birth name Zaccaria Mattia, was an Italian engraver and painter active in Rome during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Born in Borgo San Sepolcro in Tuscany, he came from an artistically inclined family and received training that equipped him for work in both painting and the reproductive graphic arts. It was as a printmaker, however,...