Empedocles, standing frontally with his head turned in three-quarter view, directs his gaze toward a flame (the crater of Mount Aetna?) emerging from a horizontal ground line, a walking stick leans toward the right margin
René Boyvin|Rosso Fiorentino
ca. 1545–63
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 7/16 x 6 1/2 in. (26.5 x 16.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.24
Tags
MenPhilosophers
About the Artist
René Boyvin|Rosso Fiorentino · 1525–1580
French, Angers ca. 1525–1598 or 1625/6 Angers