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Giulio Sanuto
Tantaluscirca 1566

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Engraving of a muscular bearded man twisting his nude body upward to reach fruit on a tree, water rising around him, with a colonnaded building and distant boat in the background

Giulio Sanuto, Tantalus, circa 1566, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Giulio Sanuto
Title
Tantalus
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
circa 1566
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
17 3/4 x 13 13/16 in. (45.1 x 35 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number
M.88.91.38
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography

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