At left four shepherds with musical instruments seated under a group of trees; at right a hilly landscape with buildings
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed to plate): 5 3/8 × 10 1/8 in. (13.6 × 25.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.25.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Musical InstrumentsBuildingsMenLandscapesShepherds
About the Artist
Giulio Campagnola|Domenico Campagnola · 1482–1515
Giulio Campagnola (c. 1482–c. 1515) was born in Padua, within the Republic of Venice, to Girolamo Campagnola, a noted humanist scholar and writer who may have been an amateur painter. Exceptionally gifted from youth, by age fifteen he was praised as a poet, musician, linguist in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and skilled in painting, engraving, and gem-cutting, prompting efforts to secure him a positio...