Plate 10: Venus in a niche, standing on a conch shell, with Cupid to her right, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 4 5/16 in. (21 × 10.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.97.231
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the mythical allure of Renaissance Italy with *Plate 10: Venus a niche, standing on conch shell, withid to her right*, the series *Mythological and Goddesses* (1526). This engraving, likely designed by the Mannerist master Rosso Fiorentino and masterfully executed by engraver Jacopo Caraglio, captures Venus, goddess of love, poised gracefully atop her iconic conch shell, accompanied by the playful Cupid. Framed within an architectural niche, the composition evokes classical antiquity, blending elegant proportions with the emerging distortions of Mannerism—elongated forms and intricat...
About the Artist
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino · 1500–1565
Italian, Parma or Verona ca. 1500/1505–1565 Krakow (?)