Empedocles, standing frontally with his head turned in three-quarter view, directs his gaze toward a flame (the crater of Mount Aetna?) emerging from a horizontal ground line, a walking stick leans toward the right margin
René Boyvin|Rosso Fiorentino
ca. 1545–63
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 7/16 x 6 1/2 in. (26.5 x 16.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.24
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MenPhilosophers
About the Artist
René Boyvin|Rosso Fiorentino · 1525–1580
French, Angers ca. 1525–1598 or 1625/6 Angers