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Augustus and the Sybil ? by Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century

Medium

Intaglio

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927

Accession Number

27.78.2(120)

Rights

Public Domain

Tags

Emperor AugustusFemale Nudes

About the Artist

Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century · 1500–1640

The artist known only as Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century, remains one of the many unidentified figures whose works survive in museum collections today. Active between roughly 1500 and 1640, this individual produced drawings, ornamental panels, and devotional subjects during a transformative period in Italian art that bridged the late Renaissance and the emerging Baroque. With no rec...

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