Andrea Odoni
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 12 3/8 x 15 1/16 in. (31.4 x 38.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.6621
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About this artwork
This etching and engraving reproduces Lorenzo Lotto's 1527 portrait of Andrea Odoni, a wealthy Venetian merchant and passionate collector of classical antiquities. The print shows Odoni surrounded by fragments of ancient sculptures, presenting him as a Renaissance connoisseur whose appreciation of antiquity defined his cultural identity. Visscher captures the painting's complex composition, where the collector's engagement with ancient art reflects broader humanist values about learning, beauty,...
About the Artist
Cornelis Visscher|Lorenzo Lotto|Andrea Odoni · 1629–1658
Cornelis Visscher (1629–1658) was a Dutch Golden Age engraver, draughtsman, and printmaker born in Haarlem, the brother of fellow artists Jan de Visscher and Lambert Visscher. Little is known of his early life, but he studied under the Haarlem painter and engraver Pieter Claesz Soutman, with whom he closely collaborated from 1649 to 1650, producing numerous portrait engravings for Soutman's print ...