Historia Septem Infantium de Lara/ Historia de los Siete Infantes de Lara
Antonio Tempesta
1612
Medium
etching
Dimensions
185; 206
About this artwork
height 185 mm x width 206 mm
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...