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Plate 14: Ceres in a niche, facing right, standing over a two-headed snake and holding a half-moon sickle in her right hand and a torch in her left hand, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

Plate 14: Ceres in a niche, facing right, standing over a two-headed snake and holding a half-moon sickle in her right hand and a torch in her left hand, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses" by Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 8 3/16 × 4 5/16 in. (20.8 × 11 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

49.97.235

Tags

CeresSnakesFemale Nudes

About the Artist

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino · 15001565

Italian, Parma or Verona ca. 1500/1505–1565 Krakow (?)

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