The old shepherd lying in a landscape, buildings behind, a goat and a sheep to the left
Giulio Campagnola
ca. 1500–1515
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 1/8 × 5 5/16 in. (8 × 13.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Accession Number
37.3.11
Tags
BuildingsGoatsSheepTreesShepherds
About the Artist
Giulio Campagnola · 1482–1515
Giulio Campagnola (c. 1482–c. 1515) was born in Padua, within the Republic of Venice, to Girolamo Campagnola, a noted humanist scholar and writer who may have been an amateur painter. Exceptionally gifted from youth, by age fifteen he was praised as a poet, musician, linguist in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and skilled in painting, engraving, and gem-cutting, prompting efforts to secure him a positio...