Plate 1: Saturn in a niche devouring his son, standing before a scythe, from a series of mythological gods and goddesses
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 8 11/16 x 4 5/8 in. (22.1 x 11.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.318.5
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *Plate 1: Saturn in a Niche Devouring His Son, Standing Before aythe*, a striking 1526 engraving from series depicting mythological gods and goddesses. through a collaboration between Mannerist painter Rosso Fiorentino who likely designed the dramatic composition, engraver Giovanni Jacopo Car, who translated it into print, and possibly publisher Carlo Losi, this measures 8 11/16 x 4 5/8 inches. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it captures the fearsome Titan Saturn—Roman equivalent of the Greek Cronus—in a recessed architectural niche, ferociousl...
About the Artist
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino|Carlo Losi · 1500–1565
Italian, Parma or Verona ca. 1500/1505–1565 Krakow (?)