The Battle of Mühlberg with the army of Charles V crossing the Elbe River
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 3/4 × 14 3/4 in. (52.7 × 37.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.97.349
Tags
About the Artist
Enea Vico|Giovanni Battista Scultori|Giovanni Battista Scultori|Battista Franco|Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany · 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...