Roman Warrior
c. 1507
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13.8 x 9.6 cm (5 7/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7418
Art Historical Context
Behold the *Roman Warrior*, a masterful by Nicoletto da Modena created around 1507. This intimate print, measuring just 13.8 x 9.6 cm, captures a stoic figure clad in classical armor, evoking the grandeur of ancient Rome during the Renaissance revival of antiquity. Nicoletto, a skilled Italian engraver from Modena active in the early 16 century, specialized in such detailed, small-scale works that blended Northern precision with Italian humanism. Engraving, the medium here, was revolutionary in this era: artists incised fine lines into copper plates, inking them to produce crisp, reproducible...
About the Artist
Nicoletto da Modena
Nicoletto da Modena was an Italian engraver active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, one of the most prolific and stylistically eclectic printmakers of the early Italian Renaissance. The details of his biography remain uncertain — his precise birth and death dates are unknown, and he is identified primarily through the body of prints that bear his name or monogram. He appears to...