Zaleucus (Seleucus) and his son
Medium
Etching, only state
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 7/16 in. (27.8 × 34.2 cm) Cut into image and text at sides
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.18-100
Tags
About the Artist
Giulio Romano|Wenceslaus Hollar|Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel · 1499–1546
Giulio Romano (c. 1499–1546) was the most gifted pupil of Raphael and one of the founding figures of Mannerism, the style that succeeded the High Renaissance in Italy. Born Giulio Pippi in Rome, he entered Raphael's workshop as a boy and proved so talented that by the time of Raphael's death in 1520 he was effectively running the studio and overseeing the completion of major unfinished commissions...