Fama
Nicoletto da Modena
c. 1507
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13.5 x 9.5 cm (5 5/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7419
About the Artist
Nicoletto da Modena
Nicoletto da Modena was an Italian engraver active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, one of the most prolific and stylistically eclectic printmakers of the early Italian Renaissance. The details of his biography remain uncertain — his precise birth and death dates are unknown, and he is identified primarily through the body of prints that bear his name or monogram. He appears to...