Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino at his desk, writing
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 8 11/16 in. (35 × 22 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.2509
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Francesco Villamena|Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino · 1565–1624
Francesco Villamena (ca. 1565–1624), born in Assisi, emerged as one of the foremost Italian engravers of the late Mannerist era, renowned for his reproductive prints that disseminated the masterpieces of High Renaissance artists across Europe. He studied under the Dutch engraver Cornelis Cort in Rome, where he arrived during the papacy of Sixtus V (1585–1590), honing his technique by copying Cort'...