Thetis Standing with Two Tritons
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 9 5/16 x 6 3/8 in. (23.7 x 16.2 cm); trimmed to plate
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.600.243
Tags
About the Artist
Giorgio Ghisi|Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Anonymous, Italian?, 16th century · 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 ...