Archers Shooting at a Herm, Triumph of Bacchus, and Other Studies
Medium
Pen and brown ink, and brush and gray and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions
37.5 × 27.4 cm (14 13/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
ink with wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4163
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti · 1475–1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...