Characters and Caricaturas
Medium
Etching; second state of two
Dimensions
sheet: 9 5/8 x 8 3/8 in. (24.4 x 21.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891
Accession Number
91.1.55
Tags
About the Artist
Leonardo da Vinci|Annibale Carracci|Pier Leone Ghezzi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|William Hogarth · 1452–1519
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) stands as the quintessential Renaissance polymath, whose genius spanned painting, sculpture, architecture, science, mathematics, engineering, anatomy, geology, cartography, botany, and writing. Born in Vinci, Italy, as the illegitimate son of a notary, Leonardo received limited formal education but demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent from an early age. His appr...