Vase
Antonio Fantuzzi
1543
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 11 3/4 × 6 1/16 in. (29.9 × 15.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943
Accession Number
43.45.22
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Human FiguresVases
About the Artist
Antonio Fantuzzi · 1537–1545
**Antonio Fantuzzi** (active 1537–1550) was an Italian painter and printmaker born in Bologna who played a significant role in the First School of Fontainebleau during the French Renaissance. He worked in a Mannerist style, contributing to the lavish decorations of the Palace of Fontainebleau under royal patronage. Fantuzzi is recorded as a painter at Fontainebleau from 1537 onward, initially on ...