Coronation of the Virgin
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 1/16 × 28 11/16 in. (50.9 × 72.8 cm) Plate: 17 11/16 x 20 1/16 in. (44.9 x 50.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1979
Accession Number
1979.524
Tags
About the Artist
Annibale Carracci|Johann Jakob Frey the Elder · 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.