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Giorgio Ghisi
The Death of Procriscirca 1540

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Engraving with dense crosshatching depicting a crowded mythological scene of nude and draped figures in a rocky, wooded landscape, with a glowing figure framed in an arch at upper center and a distant landscape vista; inscription at bottom reads IVLIVS ROMANVS INVENTOR

Giorgio Ghisi, The Death of Procris, circa 1540, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Giorgio Ghisi
Title
The Death of Procris
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
circa 1540
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 3/4 x 22 5/8 in. (40.01 x 57.47 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number
M.88.91.24
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Bartsch, Adam von. The Illustrated Bartsch. New York: Abaris Books, 1978.

  • Davis, Bruce. Mannerist Prints: International Style in the Sixteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.

  • Boorsch, Suzanne; Lewis, Michal; Lewis, R.E. The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985