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The Visitation, the Virgin and Saint Elizabeth embracing in the center, flanked by other figures, after Barocci

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The Visitation, the Virgin and Saint Elizabeth embracing in the center, flanked by other figures, after Barocci

Federico Barocci | Philips Galle

1589

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 5/8 in. × 7 in. (24.4 × 17.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1962

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Federico Barocci

1528–1612 • Duchy of Urbino

Italian miniaturist and painter who specialized in alterpieces. He worked in the Vatican for Pope Pius IV, where an attempt was made to murder him by poison. In injured health as a result, he returned to Urbino and died there. Comment on works: Religious

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