Le feste o balli from Habiti d'huomeni et donne Venetiane
Giacomo Franco
ca. 1610
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 9 13/16 x 6 1/2 in. (24.9 x 16.5 cm) Sheet: 11 5/16 x 7 13/16 in. (28.7 x 19.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.141.2(17)
Tags
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About the Artist
Giacomo Franco · 1550–1620
**Giacomo Franco (1550–1620)** Giacomo Franco, born around 1550 possibly in Urbino or Venice, emerged as a pivotal figure in Venetian printmaking as the natural son of the painter and engraver Battista Franco Veneziano. He likely received his early training in his father's workshop at Santa Fosca, where Battista had executed notable etchings of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Vatican ...