The fate of an evil tongue; seven putti stand around an anvil on which they hammer a tongue, landscape and architecture behind

The fate of an evil tongue; seven putti stand around an anvil on which they hammer a tongue, landscape and architecture behind by Nicoletto da Modena

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 1/8 in. (29.5 × 20.6 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Anonymous Gift, 1929

Accession Number

29.44.30

Tags

PuttiHammers

About the Artist

Nicoletto da Modena

Nicoletto da Modena was an Italian engraver active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, one of the most prolific and stylistically eclectic printmakers of the early Italian Renaissance. The details of his biography remain uncertain — his precise birth and death dates are unknown, and he is identified primarily through the body of prints that bear his name or monogram. He appears to...

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