The Sabine Women Pleading for Peace.
Giovanni Battista Foggini
1652–1725
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on brownish paper
Dimensions
sheet: 15 13/16 x 21 7/8 in. (40.1 x 55.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.52
Tags
HorsesBuildingsBattlesMenWomen
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Foggini · 1652–1725
**Giovanni Battista Foggini** (1652–1725) was a leading Italian sculptor and architect of the late Baroque period, born in Florence within the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He began his career under the patronage of the Medici family, who sponsored his artistic training. In 1673, at the age of 21, Cosimo III de' Medici sent the young Foggini to Rome to join the newly founded Accademia Fiorentina, where ...