The Visitation
Medium
Engraving; fifth state of six
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 12 1/2 × 19 3/16 in. (31.8 × 48.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941
Accession Number
41.97.283
Tags
About the Artist
Giorgio Ghisi|Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi)|Giovanni Battista de Rossi · 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 ...