Crucifixion

Art Historical Context

This exquisite 16th-century Italian, titled *Crucifixion* and dated 1541, hails from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Drawings and Prints department, of The Elisha Whittelsey Collection.ributed to an anonymous Italian with possible contributions from Girolamoiuoli, Francesco Salati (also known as Francesco de'), and publisher Antonio Salamanca, it exemplifies collaborative world of Renaissance printmaking. Salviati, a prominentist painter active in Rome and Florence, likely provided the design, while Fagiuoli may have executed the engraving, and Salamanca disseminated it—common practice for spre...