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Italian

The Rape of Ganymede, ca. 1550

Description

Maker

  • Unknown
  • After Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, Italian, designer

Culture

Italian

Title

The Rape of Ganymede

Year

ca. 1550

Medium

engraving

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

42.5 x 28.4 cm (16 13/16 x 11 3/16 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered LC: "Ganimedis. Iuvenis. Trioianus. Raptus. A. Iove."
Watermark: Crossed Arrows, on the chainline, similar to Briquet 6281

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

45.191.15

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Prints and Drawings with a Classical Reference

December 15, 1965 - January 9, 1966

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is The Rape of Ganymede with the accession number of 45.191.15. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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