Rhinoceros
Enea Vico
1542, printed c. 1548
Medium
Engraving and etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet, trimmed with platemark: 26.5 × 36.2 cm (10 7/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
259606
About the Artist
Enea Vico · 1523–1567
Enea Vico (1523–1567) was born in Parma and came of age during the final, energetic decades of Italian Renaissance printmaking. By 1541 he had made his way to Rome, where he entered the orbit of the engraver and publisher Tommaso Barlacchi and began his professional career. In Rome, Vico encountered the work of the most celebrated printmakers of the preceding generation—Marcantonio Raimondi, Agost...