Christ standing at left addressing the Woman of Samaria at right who is standing by a well, lagoon in the background
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 3/4 × 6 11/16 in. (12 × 17 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.32
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Giulio Campagnola|Giorgione|Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)|Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani) · 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...