Plate 2: Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot, from The Deeds of Alexander the Great
Medium
Etching, first state of two (Bartsch)
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 11/16 × 11 1/8 in. (22 × 28.2 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
51.501.4085
Tags
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta|Johannes Baptista Vrints · 1555–1630
Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630), known as 'Il Tempestino,' was a Florentine painter and printmaker whose extraordinary output of approximately 1,700 etchings made him one of the most influential printmakers of the early Baroque period. Born in Florence and trained under Santi di Tito and the Flemish master Joannes Stradanus, he enrolled in the Accademia del Disegno in 1576 before relocating to Rome i...