The Descent from the Cross

The Descent from the Cross by Federico Barocci|Charles David

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 21 in. × 15 9/16 in. (53.4 × 39.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1962

Accession Number

62.602.363

About the Artist

Federico Barocci|Charles David · 15351612

Federico Barocci (c. 1535–1612) was an Italian painter from Urbino whose luminous, emotionally tender religious paintings made him one of the most original and influential artists of the late sixteenth century, bridging Mannerism and the early Baroque. Born in Urbino, the city of Raphael, he studied under Battista Franco and traveled to Rome, where he absorbed the lessons of Raphael, Correggio, an...

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