Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo facing left
1572
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 in. × 9 13/16 in. (35.5 × 25 cm) Plate: 9 3/16 × 6 11/16 in. (23.3 × 17 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.42.7
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold the elegant *Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo facing left*, an engraving by the skilled Italian artist Giulio Bonasone, created in 1572. Bonasone, a prominent Mannerist engraver active in Bologna and Rome, masterfully captured the profile of this Renaissance humanist and cardinal (1470–1547) in a sheet measuring 14 × 9 13/16 inches. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, this work exemplifies the power of printmaking to immortalize influential figures long after their time. Pietro Bembo was a towering intellectual of the High Renaissance, a poet, sc...
About the Artist
Giulio Bonasone · 1500–1600
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