Christ standing before an entrance to a city surrounded by apostles addressing a group of men at right

Christ standing before an entrance to a city surrounded by apostles addressing a group of men at right by Bartolomeo Neroni (Il Riccio)|Polidoro da Caravaggio|Stefano Mulinari

Medium

Etching with sulphur tone printed in brown

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 14 in. × 11 13/16 in. (35.6 × 30 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Accession Number

51.501.918

About the Artist

Bartolomeo Neroni (Il Riccio)|Polidoro da Caravaggio|Stefano Mulinari · 15051571

Bartolomeo Neroni, known as Il Riccio or Riccio Sanese, was a multifaceted artist of the Sienese School, born around 1505 in Siena, Italy, where he spent his life and died in 1571. A painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and even manuscript illuminator, Neroni exemplified the Renaissance ideal of the polymath, blending artistic creativity with practical ingenuity. His nickname "Il Riccio," meani...

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