The Vision of Ezekiel; a group of corpses and skeletons emerging out of tombs, above them five winged putti holding a banderole
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 16 1/8 x 26 1/2 in. (41 x 67.3 cm) Sheet: 16 13/16 x 26 1/2 in. (42.7 x 67.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1994
Accession Number
1994.297.3
Tags
About the Artist
Giorgio Ghisi|Giovanni Battista Bertano · 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 ...