The Holy Family with St. Anne and St. Catherine
Medium
Engraving, state IV
Dimensions
plate: 14 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (36.8 x 24.2 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
49.95.294
Tags
About the Artist
Enea Vico|Rosso Fiorentino|Antonio Salamanca|Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi)|Orazio Pacifico|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi · 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...