Venus and Mars Embracing as Vulcan Works at His Forge (right half only)
Medium
Engraving, 1st state
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.78.2(184)
Tags
MarsVenusVulcan
About the Artist
Enea Vico|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · 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...