Frontispiece to 'The Battles of the Old Testament' with the arms of the Medici Crowned by Two Putti
Medium
Etching; second state of two (Bartsch)
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/16 × 11 7/16 in. (20.5 × 29 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.3366
Tags
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta|Nicolaus van Aelst|Stefano Scolari · 1555–1630
Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630), known as 'Il Tempestino,' was a Florentine painter and printmaker whose extraordinary output of approximately 1,700 etchings made him one of the most influential printmakers of the early Baroque period. Born in Florence and trained under Santi di Tito and the Flemish master Joannes Stradanus, he enrolled in the Accademia del Disegno in 1576 before relocating to Rome i...