Vier tijdperken van de wereld
Antonio Tempesta
1599
Medium
etching
Dimensions
221; 336
About this artwork
Het zilveren tijdperk: mensen bewerken het land en houden vee. Ze wonen in huizen. Onderschrift en titel in het Latijn in ondermarge.
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta · 1555–1630
Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630), known as 'Il Tempestino,' was a Florentine painter and printmaker whose extraordinary output of approximately 1,700 etchings made him one of the most influential printmakers of the early Baroque period. Born in Florence and trained under Santi di Tito and the Flemish master Joannes Stradanus, he enrolled in the Accademia del Disegno in 1576 before relocating to Rome i...