Conversion of Saul, from Michelangelo's fresco in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 7/8 x 21 1/8 in. (42.9 x 53.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.570.275
Tags
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti|Nicolas Beatrizet|Antonio Salamanca · 1475–1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...