Plate 12: Domitian in profile to the right, from "The Twelve Caesars"
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 20 5/16 × 14 1/2 in. (51.6 × 36.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.5008
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold Plate 12 from the series *The Twelve Caesars*, an exquisite etching and engraving depicting Roman Domitian (r. 81–96 CE) in strict profile to the right.ed between 1610 1640 and attributed to the Italian printmaker Raffaello Schiaminossior possibly anonymous), this work captures Domitian adorned with a helmet, ev the grandeur of imperial portraiture. Housed the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it measures a substantial 20 5/16 × 14 1/2 inches, trimmed for display. This print revives the classical tradition of the Twelve Caesars, popularized by Suetonius' anci...
About the Artist
Anonymous|Raffaello Schiaminossi
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...