Ignorance Defeated
Medium
Etching, in red ink
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 12 3/8 in. × 17 in. (31.5 × 43.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of George Coe Graves, by exchange, 1966
Accession Number
66.658.7
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
SoldiersMenFemale Nudes
About the Artist
Antonio Fantuzzi|Rosso Fiorentino · 1537–1545
**Antonio Fantuzzi** (active 1537–1550) was an Italian painter and printmaker born in Bologna who played a significant role in the First School of Fontainebleau during the French Renaissance. He worked in a Mannerist style, contributing to the lavish decorations of the Palace of Fontainebleau under royal patronage. Fantuzzi is recorded as a painter at Fontainebleau from 1537 onward, initially on ...