Plate 20: two figures composed of pipes and sieves from 'Bizzarie di varie figure'
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 3 1/4 × 4 3/16 in. (8.3 × 10.7 cm) Sheet: 3 5/16 × 4 1/4 in. (8.4 × 10.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. M.B. Orlan, 1961
Accession Number
61.609.1
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Bracelli · 1590–1690
Giovanni Battista Bracelli was an Italian engraver and draftsman active in Florence in the early seventeenth century. Membership records of Florence's prestigious Accademia del Disegno place him in the institution between 1619 and 1635, providing the primary documentary evidence for his life and career. He studied under the Florentine painter Jacopo da Empoli (1551–1640), whose workshop produced r...