Mercury by Michelangelo Buonarroti|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

sheet: 20 3/16 x 13 7/8 in. (51.3 x 35.3 cm) plate: 16 3/16 x 8 7/8 in. (41.1 x 22.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924

Accession Number

24.63.1622

Tags

Mercury

About the Artist

Michelangelo Buonarroti|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · 14751564

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...

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