The Virgin of Sorrows; an image of the Virgin Mary surrounded by nine vignettes depicting scenes of her life
Giorgio Ghisi
ca. 1575
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 11 3/4 × 8 3/4 in. (29.9 × 22.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Michal, Jan and R. E. Lewis, 1986
Accession Number
1986.1235
Tags
AngelsChristVirgin MaryCross
About the Artist
Giorgio Ghisi · 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 ...