Perseus changing Atlas into a mountan with the head of Medusa, from Perseus and the Golden Apples
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 11 13/16 in. (17.2 × 30 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941
Accession Number
41.97.442a
Tags
MedusaPerseusTrees
About the Artist
Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)|Polidoro da Caravaggio · 1553–1615
Cherubino Alberti (1553–1615), also known by his birth name Zaccaria Mattia, was an Italian engraver and painter active in Rome during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Born in Borgo San Sepolcro in Tuscany, he came from an artistically inclined family and received training that equipped him for work in both painting and the reproductive graphic arts. It was as a printmaker, however,...