Plate 2: People rendering divine honors to Psyche, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 13/16 in. (26 × 40.2 cm) Plate: 7 3/4 × 9 1/4 in. (19.7 × 23.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
41.71.3(2)
Tags
About the Artist
Master of the Die|Antonio Salamanca|Michiel Coxie (I) · 1525–1560
**Master of the Die** (fl. 1525–1560) was an anonymous Italian engraver and printmaker active primarily in Rome during the mid-16th century. Named for the distinctive small die he used to sign his prints—a tiny emblematic mark that became his moniker—this elusive artist remains unidentified despite scholarly proposals linking him to figures like Benedetto Verino, Giovanni Francesco Zabello, Tommas...