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Poets, Lovers, and Heroes in Italian Mythological Prints
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Apollo and Diana, ca. 1500–1505
Jacopo de' Barbari (Venice? ca. 1460/70–before 1516 Mechelen or Brussels)
Engraving; plate 6 1/4 x 3 15/16 in. (15.9 x 9.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1920 (20.92.2)
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Apollo, Pegasus, and the Hippocrene Spring, mid-16th century
Angiolo Falconetto (active Trentino near Verona? ca. 1555–1567, d. before 1572) after Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi) (Rome 1499?–1546 Mantua)
Etching; plate 8 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. (20.9 x 16.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949 (49.95.286)
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The Muse Euterpe, ca. 1465–67
Ferrarese School
Engraving; sheet 7 1/4 x 4 in. (18.4 x 10.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1919 (19.52.18)
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Poetry, ca. 1465–67
Ferrarese School
Engraving with applied gilding; sheet 6 9/16 x 3 1/2 in. (16.6 x 8.9 cm), border trimmed
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959 (59.570.32)
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Minerva and the Muses, mid-16th century
Emilian? School
Etching and drypoint; sheet 8 3/4 x 6 5/16 in. (22.2 x 16 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927 (27.78.2.99)
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Apollo, Pan, and a Putto Blowing a Horn, 1560s
Giorgio Ghisi (Mantua 1520–1582 Mantua) after Francesco Primaticcio (Bologna 1504–1570 Paris)
Engraving, third state; shaped plate 11 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (29.8 x 16.5 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949 (49.95.161)
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Pan Reclining before a Large Vase, published 1648
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Genoa, baptized March 1609–1664 Mantua)
Etching; sheet 4 1/2 x 8 3/8 in. (11.4 x 21.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917 (17.50.17.464)
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A Satyr Family from the Scherzi di Fantasia, ca. 1743–57
Giambattista Tiepolo (Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)
Etching; plate 8 7/8 x 6 15/16 in. (22.6 x 17.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Dodge and
Pfeiffer Funds, and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and Gift of Bertina Suida Manning and Robert L. Manning, 1976 (1976.537.19)
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Bacchanal with Silenus, ca. 1470s
Andrea Mantegna (Isola di Carturo, near Padua 1430/31–1506 Mantua)
Engraving; plate 11 3/4 x 17 3/16 in. (29.9 x 43.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Anonymous Gift, 1929 (29.44.15)
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The Drunken Silenus (Tazza Farnese), ca. 1597–1600
Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560–1609 Rome)
Engraving printed from a silver cup; plate Diam. 9 15/16 in. (25.3 cm), sheet 12 15/16 x 11 1/8 in. (32.8 x 28.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927 (27.78.1[150])
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The Drunken Silenus, 1628
Jusepe de Ribera (Jativa, Spain 1591–1652 Naples)
Etching with drypoint, engraving, and burnishing; plate 10 9/16 x 13 3/4 in. (26.8 x 34.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1922 (22.67.14)
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