At left four shepherds with musical instruments seated under a group of trees; at right a hilly landscape with buildings
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed to plate): 5 3/8 × 10 1/8 in. (13.6 × 25.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.25.1
Tags
Musical InstrumentsBuildingsMenLandscapesShepherds
About the Artist
Giulio Campagnola|Domenico Campagnola · 1482–1515
Giulio Campagnola (c. 1482–c. 1515) was born in Padua, within the Republic of Venice, to Girolamo Campagnola, a noted humanist scholar and writer who may have been an amateur painter. Exceptionally gifted from youth, by age fifteen he was praised as a poet, musician, linguist in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and skilled in painting, engraving, and gem-cutting, prompting efforts to secure him a positio...