Ganymede as a young boy riding a large eagle (Zeus) in flight above a landscape
Giulio Campagnola|Andrea Mantegna
ca. 1500–1505
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 7/8 × 5 1/16 in. (17.5 × 12.8 cm) Plate: 6 5/8 × 4 13/16 in. (16.9 × 12.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Accession Number
37.3.10
Tags
EaglesBoys
About the Artist
Giulio Campagnola|Andrea Mantegna · 1482–1515
Giulio Campagnola (c. 1482–c. 1515) was born in Padua, within the Republic of Venice, to Girolamo Campagnola, a noted humanist scholar and writer who may have been an amateur painter. Exceptionally gifted from youth, by age fifteen he was praised as a poet, musician, linguist in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and skilled in painting, engraving, and gem-cutting, prompting efforts to secure him a positio...