Christ standing before an entrance to a city surrounded by apostles addressing a group of men at right
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 · 1505–1571
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...