Plate 4: The victory of Goleta, near Tunis, from the "Triumphs of Charles V"
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 12 5/8 x 16 3/4 in. (32 x 42.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.602.103
Tags
HorsesSoldiersCannonsMen
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta|Jacques de Gheyn, III · 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...