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The Goddess Diana with Her Hounds Standing in a Landscape
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The Goddess Diana with Her Hounds Standing in a Landscape

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

Dimensions

sheet: 9 x 6 9/16 in. (22.8 x 16.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 2008

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Agostino Tassi

1569–1644Papal States

As a boy, Agostino Buonamici was a page in the home of the Marchese Tassi in Rome; he was afterwards known by the name "Tassi." His patrons included the Medici family, Pope Paul V, and the Borghese family. Agostino is best known for illusionistic architectural decorations in fresco (quadratura) and small landscapes in oil. Some historical sources list the birth date as earlier, 1566, and in Perugia rather than Rome. He spent a year in prison for assault against Orazio Gentilleschi's daughter, Artemesia; some modern scholarship disputes his guilt regarding the conviction. Comment on works: Religious; Landscapes

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