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Landscape with Saint Jerome at left looking towards lion and bear fighting at center; two figures with mule in the background

Domenico Campagnola

ca. 1530–35

Landscape with Saint Jerome at left looking towards lion and bear fighting at center; two figures with mule in the background by Domenico Campagnola

Medium

Woodcut

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 11 1/4 × 16 5/8 in. (28.6 × 42.2 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1919

Accession Number

19.25.4

Tags

BearsMountainsLandscapesSaint JeromeLions

About the Artist

Domenico Campagnola · 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...

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