Lucretia Preparing to Kill Herself
Medium
Engraving; second state
Dimensions
sheet: 11 15/16 x 8 1/16 in. (30.3 x 20.4 cm) mounted on sheet trimmed to size of print
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.570.298
Tags
About the Artist
Enea Vico|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Antonio Salamanca · 1523–1567
Enea Vico (1523–1567) was born in Parma and came of age during the final, energetic decades of Italian Renaissance printmaking. By 1541 he had made his way to Rome, where he entered the orbit of the engraver and publisher Tommaso Barlacchi and began his professional career. In Rome, Vico encountered the work of the most celebrated printmakers of the preceding generation—Marcantonio Raimondi, Agost...