Medium
Engraving; fourth state of four
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 13 1/8 × 17 15/16 in. (33.3 × 45.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1964
Accession Number
64.682.123
Tags
About the Artist
Giorgio Ghisi|Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)|Hieronymus Cock · 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 ...