The Academy of Baccio Bandinelli
Medium
Engraving; first state of two
Dimensions
sheet: 12 1/16 x 17 1/4 in. (30.6 x 43.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.16-135
Tags
FireplacesSkeletonsMenWomen
About the Artist
Enea Vico|Baccio Bandinelli|Pietro Paolo Palumbo · 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...