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

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 by René Boyvin|Rosso Fiorentino

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 · 15251580

French, Angers ca. 1525–1598 or 1625/6 Angers

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