Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
Enea Vico
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and gray gouache, on tan laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, laid down on blue wove paper
Dimensions
27.2 × 41.8 cm (10 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.)
Classification
ink with wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
54883
About the Artist
Enea Vico · 1523–1567
Enea Vico (1523–1567) was born in Parma and came of age during the final, energetic decades of Italian Renaissance printmaking. By 1541 he had made his way to Rome, where he entered the orbit of the engraver and publisher Tommaso Barlacchi and began his professional career. In Rome, Vico encountered the work of the most celebrated printmakers of the preceding generation—Marcantonio Raimondi, Agost...