Object number1976.24

Bathers from the Battle of Cascina ("The Climbers")

Date1550s

Artist Michele Greco (Italian, b.1539)

after Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564)

copy after Agostino Musi (Italian, c. 1490–after 1536)

CultureItalian

MediumEngraving in black ink on cream laid paper

DimensionsImage: 12 7/8 x 17 1/4 in. (32.7 x 43.8 cm)
Plate: 13 x 17 1/2 in. (33 x 44.5 cm)
Sheet: 13 3/16 x 17 5/8 in. (33.5 x 44.8 cm)
Support: 19 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (48.9 x 69.2 cm)
Matted: 22 1/16 x 27 15/16 in. (56 x 71 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Suzette Morton Davidson, class of 1934, Fund

On View

Not on view

Period16th c

Classification(s)

InscribedWithin plate, by artist, lower left: Petri de Nobilibus Formis; lower center: Michaelan / gelus Buona / rotus inuentor; lower right: .M.L. / cum priuile- / gio.; on verso, by unidentified hand, lower right corner in pencil [upside down]: VCAG 76.24

BibliographyDe Tolnay, Charles. The Youth of Michelangelo. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1947. Plate (?) 235; Mills, Sally. For Pleasure and Instruction: Twenty-five years of Collecting with the Suzette Morton Davidson Fund. Vassar College Art Gallery, exhibition catalogue

Vassar Exhibitions

Transmission of Fame: Italian Renaissance Prints

In Translation: Prints Across Media

Exhibition HistoryTransmission of Fame: Italian Renaissance Prints, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 9 - June 13, 2004;

In Translation: Prints Across Media, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, May 28 - September 18, 2022

DescriptionComposed of small black linework, men in various states of undress in dynamic poses are situated in a jagged landscape with a small group of trees centrally in the background and a village in the far background on left

Terms

men (male humans)

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