Halcyone ob mariti reditum Iunoni supplicat
Antonio Tempesta
1606
Medium
etching
Dimensions
104; 117
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 240
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta · 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...