Cistern
Medium
Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 9 3/4 × 19 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (24.8 × 49.5 × 40 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
53.225.89
Tags
About the Artist
Giulio Romano|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Marcantonio Raimondi · 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...