Plate LXXV (75): Male Athlete, from "Museum Florentinum" (Statuae antiquae dorum et virorum illustrium)
Medium
Engraving and etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (38 × 25.5 cm) Plate: 14 3/16 × 8 7/8 in. (36 × 22.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Accession Number
2019.282.124
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the neoclassical world of *Plate LXXV: Male* from the monumental *Museum Florentinum (Statuae antiquae dorum etorum illustrium), lavish 18th-century publication cataloged the ancient sculptures in Florence's Uffizi Gallery Created in 1734 by skilled Italian engravers Carlo Gregori Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, print captures the poised grace of a nude male athlete, evoking heroic ideals of classical antiquity. Likely inspired by a Roman marble statue from the Medici collection, it exemplifies the era's passion for rediscovering Greco-Roman art as a pinnacle of human perfection. Rende...
About the Artist
Carlo Gregori|Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (Italian|Italian) · 1692 |1719 –1768 |1759
Italian, Lucca, 1692–1768|Italian, Florence 1719–1759 Florence