Ornament Panel with Mars, God of Battles
Nicoletto da Modena
c. 1507
Medium
Engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 26.4 × 12.8 cm (10 7/16 × 5 1/16 in.); Sheet: 26.5 × 13.3 cm (10 7/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
23380
About the Artist
Nicoletto da Modena
Nicoletto da Modena was an Italian engraver active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, one of the most prolific and stylistically eclectic printmakers of the early Italian Renaissance. The details of his biography remain uncertain — his precise birth and death dates are unknown, and he is identified primarily through the body of prints that bear his name or monogram. He appears to...