Christ and the Samaritan Woman
Giulio Campagnola
c. 1510
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 13.2 × 18.6 cm (5 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 13.8 × 19.4 cm (5 7/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
53294
About the Artist
Giulio Campagnola · 1482–1515
Giulio Campagnola (c. 1482–c. 1515) was born in Padua, within the Republic of Venice, to Girolamo Campagnola, a noted humanist scholar and writer who may have been an amateur painter. Exceptionally gifted from youth, by age fifteen he was praised as a poet, musician, linguist in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and skilled in painting, engraving, and gem-cutting, prompting efforts to secure him a positio...