Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici facing right within an elaborate cartouche flanked by Victory at the left and Mars at right, winged figures holding Medici coat of arms top center
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 18 3/4 × 12 1/16 in. (47.7 × 30.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.942
Tags
SoldiersMenProfilesCoat of Arms
About the Artist
Enea Vico|Pietro de' Nobili|Antonio Lafreri|Giovanni de' Medici · 1523–1567
Enea Vico (1523–1567) was born in Parma and came of age during the final, energetic decades of Italian Renaissance printmaking. By 1541 he had made his way to Rome, where he entered the orbit of the engraver and publisher Tommaso Barlacchi and began his professional career. In Rome, Vico encountered the work of the most celebrated printmakers of the preceding generation—Marcantonio Raimondi, Agost...