Christ Crowned with Thorns
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 7 1/16 × 5 5/16 in. (18 × 13.5 cm) Sheet: 7 11/16 × 5 13/16 in. (19.5 × 14.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
18.86
Tags
MenChrist
About the Artist
Annibale Carracci · 1560–1609
Annibale was considered one of the greatest Italian painters of his age. His style is marked by naturalism combined with the formal language of Classicism in a grand and monumental style. Annibale was also instrumental in evolving the ideal, classical landscape and is generally credited with the invention of caricature. Italian painter. Comment on works: Mythology.