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Anonymous Fontainebleau School
Twins of Catania1540-1550

Not on view
Engraving on cream paper depicting a multi-figure scene of violent struggle and flight, with muscular nude figures grappling in the foreground and burning buildings in the distance

Anonymous Fontainebleau School, Rosso Fiorentino Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, Master IQV, Twins of Catania, 1540-1550, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Anonymous Fontainebleau School
c. 1542 - 1547
After
Giovanni Battista di Jacopo Rosso, called Rosso Fiorentino
Italian, Florence, 1494 - 1540
Title
Twins of Catania
Place Made
France
Date Made
1540-1550
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 17 5/8 in. (32.7 × 44.77 cm) Image: 12 5/8 × 17 3/8 in. (32.07 × 44.13 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number
M.88.91.70
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.