The Virgin of Sorrows: The Entombment; one of nine surrounding compartments from the Virgin of Sorrows, now separated
Giorgio Ghisi
by 1575
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 13/16 × 2 3/16 in. (7.1 × 5.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.3494
Tags
ChristVirgin MaryMenEntombment
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 ...