Pallas Athena standing on a globe, holding a spear in her left hand and her shield in her right
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
10 9/16 x 5 7/8 in. (26.8 x 15.0 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960
Accession Number
60.712.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century|Marcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Giulio Romano|Antonio Salamanca|Nicolaus van Aelst · 1500–1640
The artist known only as Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century, remains one of the many unidentified figures whose works survive in museum collections today. Active between roughly 1500 and 1640, this individual produced drawings, ornamental panels, and devotional subjects during a transformative period in Italian art that bridged the late Renaissance and the emerging Baroque. With no rec...