Female Winged Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere
Giorgio Ghisi|Giulio Romano
1558/1559
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 9 5/8 x 5 1/2 in. (24.5 x 14 cm) within platemark
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Michel Benisovitch, 1930
Accession Number
30.42.1
Tags
Women
About the Artist
Giorgio Ghisi|Giulio Romano · 1520–1582
Giorgio Ghisi (c. 1520–1582) was one of the most accomplished engravers of the Italian Renaissance, renowned for translating the monumental compositions of Raphael, Giulio Romano, and Michelangelo into the exacting medium of the burin. Born in Mantua, he trained in an environment shaped by the legacy of Giulio Romano's decoration of the Palazzo del Te, and the grandeur of that Mannerist tradition ...