Burning of a corpse
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/2 x 16 in. (26.6 x 40.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.545
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
CorpsesMenMale NudesWomenFire
About the Artist
Antonio Fantuzzi|Rosso Fiorentino · 1537–1545
**Antonio Fantuzzi** (active 1537–1550) was an Italian painter and printmaker born in Bologna who played a significant role in the First School of Fontainebleau during the French Renaissance. He worked in a Mannerist style, contributing to the lavish decorations of the Palace of Fontainebleau under royal patronage. Fantuzzi is recorded as a painter at Fontainebleau from 1537 onward, initially on ...