Wine cooler with Charles V’s Victory at Mühlberg
ca. 1560–90
Medium
Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 5 7/8 × 19 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (14.9 × 49.5 × 49.5 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
Italian, Urbino
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953
Accession Number
53.225.90
About the Artist
Enea Vico|Battista Franco · 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...