Frontispiece to the life of Alexander the Great, at left is Bellona and at right a female personification of abundance, the Coat of Arms of the Duke of Croy
Medium
Etching; fifth state of five (Bartsch)
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/16 x 11 7/16 in. (23 x 29 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Henry W. Kent, 1948
Accession Number
41.44.1641
Tags
ArmorMenWomenCoat of Arms
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta|Claes Jansz. Visscher · 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...