Samson Slaying the Philistine, after Michelangelo (recto); Figure of Fury, after Rosso Fiorentino (verso)
Giovanni Battista Naldini
1537–91
Medium
Red chalk on paper (recto); black chalk on paper (verso)
Dimensions
13 1/8 x 9 1/8in. (33.4 x 23.2cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.301
Tags
SamsonMale Nudes
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Naldini · 1535–1591
Giovanni Battista Naldini (1537–1591) was a prominent Italian painter of the late Mannerist period, active primarily in Florence and Rome. Born in Florence, he began his artistic training at the remarkably young age of twelve, entering the studio of Jacopo Pontormo in 1549 for an eight-year apprenticeship that lasted until 1557. Pontormo's influence profoundly shaped Naldini's early style, instill...