Group of naked men engaged in battle in a wooded landscape, some on horseback; a dog at lower left.
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed to plate): 8 3/4 × 8 15/16 in. (22.2 × 22.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 1929
Accession Number
29.44.27
Tags
BattlesMale NudesDogsHorses
About the Artist
Domenico Campagnola|Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)|Leonardo da Vinci · 1500–1564
Domenico Campagnola (c. 1500–1564), a Venetian Renaissance painter, engraver, and pioneering draftsman, was born around 1500, likely in Venice to German parents, and became a child prodigy under the tutelage of his adoptive father, Giulio Campagnola. Apprenticed to Giulio around 1507 in Venice, he mastered painting, drawing, engraving, and woodcutting from the esteemed Paduan engraver, whose stipp...