Two naked men, the sons of Noah, standing in profile facing right, both pointing
ca. 1500–34
Medium
Engraving; only state
Dimensions
Plate: 6 7/16 × 4 13/16 in. (16.3 × 12.2 cm) Sheet: 6 1/2 × 4 7/8 in. (16.5 × 12.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.97.161
Tags
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti|Marcantonio Raimondi · 1475–1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...