Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 11 13/16 x 16 5/16 in. (30 x 41.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Helen J. Baker, 1937
Accession Number
37.68.12
Tags
Art Historical Context
### The Visitation Behold *The Visitation*, a masterful 16th-century engraving the tender biblical moment when the Virgin Mary visits her cousin, announcing the coming of Christ. Attributed to engraver Enea Vico a design by the renowned Florentine Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto (6–1530), with publication by Antonio Salamanca and Antoniofreri, this 1561 print measures an impressive 11 1316 x 16 5/16 inches. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints department (gift of Helen J. Baker, 1937), it exemplifies how del Sarto's graceful Mannerist style—marked by elegant figures...
About the Artist
Enea Vico|Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)|Antonio Salamanca|Antonio Lafreri · 1523–1567
Enea Vico (1523–1567) was born in Parma and came of age during the final, energetic decades of Italian Renaissance printmaking. By 1541 he had made his way to Rome, where he entered the orbit of the engraver and publisher Tommaso Barlacchi and began his professional career. In Rome, Vico encountered the work of the most celebrated printmakers of the preceding generation—Marcantonio Raimondi, Agost...