Combat between Amazons and men in front of architectural arcades, an oval composition with weapons, headgear, and bodies strewn along the bottom margin
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
image: 8 3/16 x 11 1/8 in. (20.8 x 28.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.404
Tags
HorsesMenFemale NudesAmazons
About the Artist
Enea Vico|Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · 1523–1567
Enea Vico (1523–1567) was born in Parma and came of age during the final, energetic decades of Italian Renaissance printmaking. By 1541 he had made his way to Rome, where he entered the orbit of the engraver and publisher Tommaso Barlacchi and began his professional career. In Rome, Vico encountered the work of the most celebrated printmakers of the preceding generation—Marcantonio Raimondi, Agost...