The Holy Spirit as a bird descending with spread wings at top center; the twelve Apostles standing below gesturing to it in front of an archway

The Holy Spirit as a bird descending with spread wings at top center; the twelve Apostles standing below gesturing to it in front of an archway by Domenico Campagnola|Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Plate: 7 3/8 x 6 7/8 in. (18.7 x 17.5 cm) Sheet: 7 5/8 × 7 11/16 in. (19.4 × 19.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960

Accession Number

60.600.1

Tags

BirdsApostlesMen

About the Artist

Domenico Campagnola|Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 15001564

Domenico Campagnola (c. 1500–1564), a Venetian Renaissance painter, engraver, and pioneering draftsman, was born around 1500, likely in Venice to German parents, and became a child prodigy under the tutelage of his adoptive father, Giulio Campagnola. Apprenticed to Giulio around 1507 in Venice, he mastered painting, drawing, engraving, and woodcutting from the esteemed Paduan engraver, whose stipp...

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