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
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · 1475–1564
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...