Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo facing left
1572
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 in. × 9 13/16 in. (35.5 × 25 cm) Plate: 9 3/16 × 6 11/16 in. (23.3 × 17 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.42.7
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold the elegant *Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Bembo facing left*, an engraving by the skilled Italian artist Giulio Bonasone, created in 1572. Bonasone, a prominent Mannerist engraver active in Bologna and Rome, masterfully captured the profile of this Renaissance humanist and cardinal (1470–1547) in a sheet measuring 14 × 9 13/16 inches. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, this work exemplifies the power of printmaking to immortalize influential figures long after their time. Pietro Bembo was a towering intellectual of the High Renaissance, a poet, sc...
About the Artist
Giulio Bonasone · 1500–1600
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