Minerva from the "Doria Grotesques"
Designed 1545, woven ca. 1550
Medium
Wool, silk (17-19 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.)
Dimensions
12 ft. 6 in. × 13 ft. 3 in. (381 × 403.9 cm)
Classification
Textiles-Tapestries
Culture
Netherlandish, Brussels
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926
Accession Number
26.260.59
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About the Artist
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Joost van Herzeele · 1501–1547
Perino del Vaga, born Piero Bonaccorsi in 1501 near Florence, emerged as one of the most elegant painters of the Mannerist era. Orphaned early—his mother died when he was two months old and his father, a gambler turned soldier, left him in the care of a stepmother—Perino received an unconventional start, apprenticed first to a druggist and then to the mediocre Andrea de' Ceri. At age eleven, he en...