Characters and Caricaturas by Leonardo da Vinci|Annibale Carracci|Pier Leone Ghezzi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|William Hogarth

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

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About the Artist

Leonardo da Vinci|Annibale Carracci|Pier Leone Ghezzi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|William Hogarth · 14521519

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...

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