Antique Ewer with a Handle in the Shape of Two Snakes coming from the Head of Medusa below, from Vases after the Antique
1543 or after
Medium
Engraving [second edition]
Dimensions
image: 10 9/16 x 7 11/16 in. (26.8 x 19.5 cm) [cropped within plate mark on all sides]
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.400.5
Tags
About the Artist
Enea Vico · 1523–1567
Enea Vico (1523–1567) was born in Parma and came of age during the final, energetic decades of Italian Renaissance printmaking. By 1541 he had made his way to Rome, where he entered the orbit of the engraver and publisher Tommaso Barlacchi and began his professional career. In Rome, Vico encountered the work of the most celebrated printmakers of the preceding generation—Marcantonio Raimondi, Agost...