Notorious Examples of Wealth from Antiquity
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 18.4 x 23.9 cm (7 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 27 x 36.3 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg
Accession Number
2011.139.88
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Philip Galle, after Maerten van Heemskerck
**Philip Galle (1537–1612)** was a leading Netherlandish engraver, designer, and print publisher whose reproductive prints helped disseminate the works of major 16th-century masters across Europe. Born in Haarlem, he trained as a pupil of the humanist and engraver Dirck Volkertsz. Coornhert. In Haarlem, Galle engraved several compositions by the local painter Maerten van Heemskerck, establishing ...