Arcus Lutii Septimii, from a Series of Prints depicting (reconstructed) Buildings from Roman Antiquity
Plate ca. 1530–1550
Medium
Engraving [moved slightly during printing]
Dimensions
Plate: 5 1/2 × 3 11/16 in. (14 × 9.4 cm)
Classification
Albums|Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.50.1(112b)
Tags
About the Artist
Monogrammist G.A. & the Caltrop · 1535–1535
**Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop**, an enigmatic Italian engraver active in Rome during the 1530s and 1540s, remains one of the shadowy figures of the Renaissance print world. Identified solely by his monogram "G.A." accompanied by a distinctive caltrop symbol—a spiked iron ball used in warfare—little is known of his personal life or training. His early years are not well documented, and no te...