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
Rights
Public Domain
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...