Venus pricked by the thorns on a rose bush, in the background Mars chasing Adonis, in the foreground winged cupid resting
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 11 15/16 x 8 3/8 in. (30.4 x 21.2 cm) within platemark
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1983
Accession Number
1983.1003.2
Tags
CupidAdonisMarsVenusTrees
About the Artist
Giorgio Ghisi|Luca Penni · 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 ...