The Dream of Raphael
Giorgio Ghisi
1561
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 in. × 17 7/16 in. (33 × 44.3 cm)
Classification
Prints-Facsimiles
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1923
Accession Number
23.59.57
About the Artist
Giorgio Ghisi · 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 ...