Frontispiece for the comedy 'The Buffoons' (Li Buffoni), a set on stage resembling a public space, various figures dancing around two people in cages in center stage, fifteen spectators below
Stefano della Bella
1639–41
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 1/2 x 5 5/16 in. (8.9 x 13.5 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.557
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Dancing
About the Artist
Stefano della Bella · 1610–1664
Stefano della Bella (1610-1664) was one of the most prolific and versatile printmakers of the Italian Baroque period, leaving behind 1,052 prints and several thousand drawings that captured the vivid essence of 17th-century European life. Born in Florence on May 18, 1610, to a family of artists, he trained initially as a goldsmith before studying painting under Cesare Dandini and etching under Rem...