Michelangelo Buonarroti (?)

Michelangelo Buonarroti (?) by Lambert Suavius

Medium

Engraving; second state

Dimensions

Sheet: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959

Accession Number

59.644.93

About the Artist

Lambert Suavius · 15101576

Lambert Suavius (c.1510–c.1574/76), whose Flemish family name was Zutman, was born in Liège, in the southern Netherlands. He was the son of an episcopal goldsmith, Henri Zutman, and from his father's craft environment he inherited a training in the precise handling of metal and an appreciation for fine detail work. He became closely associated with his brother-in-law Lambert Lombard, the leading a...

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