Seated Neptune holding a conch shell to his mouth, accompanied by a seated triton and another emerging from the water at bottom right
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. (23.2 x 15.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.80
Tags
TritonNeptuneShells
About the Artist
Giorgio Ghisi|Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · 1520–1582
Giorgio Ghisi (c. 1520–1582) was one of the most accomplished engravers of the Italian Renaissance, renowned for translating the monumental compositions of Raphael, Giulio Romano, and Michelangelo into the exacting medium of the burin. Born in Mantua, he trained in an environment shaped by the legacy of Giulio Romano's decoration of the Palazzo del Te, and the grandeur of that Mannerist tradition ...