The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Poets, Lovers, and Heroes in Italian Mythological Prints


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Poets, Lovers, and Heroes in Italian Mythological Prints

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Triumph of Love, ca. 1485–90
Francesco Rosselli (Florence 1448–before 1513 Florence)
Engraving; 1st state; sheet 10 5/16 x 6 3/4 in. (26.2 x 17.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925 (25.2.33)

Triumph of Love (Cupid in Chariot with Procession of Amorini)
Master of the Die (active in Rome ca. 1530–1550)
Engraving; sheet 3 15/16 x 15 15/16 in. (10 x 40.5 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949 (49.97.336)

Omnia vincit Amor (Love Conquers All), 1599
Agostino Carracci (Bologna 1557–1602 Parma)
Engraving; plate 5 x 7 3/8 in. (12.7 x 18.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917 (17.3.1853)

Sleeping Cupid, mid-17th century
Bartolomeo Coriolano (Bologna ca. 1599–ca. 1676 Rome) after Guido Reni (Bologna 1575–1642 Bologna)
Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks; sheet 13 3/16 x 15 7/16 in. (33.5 x 39.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1922 (22.73.3.107)

Leda and the Swan with Her Children, ca. 1508–16
Giovanni Battista Palumba (Master IB with the Bird) (active in Northern Italy and Rome, ca.1500–1516)
Engraving; sheet 6 1/4 x 5 in. (15.9 x 12.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951 (51.623.3)

Mercury, Argus and Io, ca. 1642
Simone Cantarini (Pesaro baptized August 1612–1648 Verona)
Etching, 1st state; plate 9 15/16 x 11 13/16 in. (25.2 x 30 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926 (26.70.4[142])

Rape of Proserpina
Giuseppe Scolari (Vicenza late 16th century–early 17th century Venice?)
Woodcut, 2nd state; sheet 20 1/4 x 15 3/8 in. (51.4 x 39.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1922 (22.73.3.152)

Psiche Curieuse, mid-1770s
Giovanni David (Gabella, Liguria 1743–1790 Genoa)
Etching and aquatint, corrected proof with notations in brown ink in margin; plate 11 13/16 x 7 1/2 in. (28.4 x 19 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1976 (1976.629)

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