Nude woman (Venus) reclining in a landscape
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed to plate): 3 3/4 × 5 5/16 in. (9.5 × 13.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Accession Number
28.97.75
Tags
Female NudesLandscapes
About the Artist
Domenico Campagnola|Giulio Campagnola|Giorgione · 1500–1564
Domenico Campagnola (c. 1500–1564), a Venetian Renaissance painter, engraver, and pioneering draftsman, was born around 1500, likely in Venice to German parents, and became a child prodigy under the tutelage of his adoptive father, Giulio Campagnola. Apprenticed to Giulio around 1507 in Venice, he mastered painting, drawing, engraving, and woodcutting from the esteemed Paduan engraver, whose stipp...