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Giorgio Ghisi
The Fall of Troy and the Escape of Aeneasmid-1540s

Not on view
Large-format engraving depicting a battle scene with armored warriors, rearing horses, a colossal muscular figure, and burning architecture, rendered in dense cross-hatched lines

Giorgio Ghisi, The Fall of Troy and the Escape of Aeneas, mid-1540s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Giorgio Ghisi
Title
The Fall of Troy and the Escape of Aeneas
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
mid-1540s
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 1/16 x 19 7/16 in. (38.26 x 49.37 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number
M.88.91.25
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