Giovanni Grosso standing on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, with his right arm outstretched and a snake coiled around his foot and sword
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 14 7/16 × 9 1/8 in. (36.7 × 23.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.398
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
SwordsMenSnakes
About the Artist
Francesco Villamena · 1565–1624
Francesco Villamena (ca. 1565–1624), born in Assisi, emerged as one of the foremost Italian engravers of the late Mannerist era, renowned for his reproductive prints that disseminated the masterpieces of High Renaissance artists across Europe. He studied under the Dutch engraver Cornelis Cort in Rome, where he arrived during the papacy of Sixtus V (1585–1590), honing his technique by copying Cort'...