Armorial Trophy

Armorial Trophy by Polidoro da Caravaggio

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with white gouache highlighting, over traces of graphite

Dimensions

sheet: 5 1/8 x 8 1/16 in. (13 x 20.4 cm)

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952

Accession Number

52.570.34

Tags

LionsShieldsWeaponsTrophies

About the Artist

Polidoro da Caravaggio · 1492present

Polidoro Caldara, known as Polidoro da Caravaggio, was born around 1499 in Caravaggio, Lombardy, and emerged as one of the most innovative painters of the early Mannerist period. Arriving in Rome circa 1515 as an untrained laborer hauling plaster for the Vatican Logge decorations, he quickly caught the eye of Raphael's key assistant, Maturino da Firenze. By 1517, Polidoro had joined Raphael's work...

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