Ganymede as a young boy riding a large eagle (Zeus) in flight above a landscape
ca. 1500–1505
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 7/8 × 5 1/16 in. (17.5 × 12.8 cm) Plate: 6 5/8 × 4 13/16 in. (16.9 × 12.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Accession Number
37.3.10
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Giulio Campagnola|Andrea Mantegna · 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...