The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints
Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot, Study for a Fresco in the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
- Date
- 1501–47
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash highlighted with white, squared in black chalk
- Dimensions
- 7 1/2 x 4 7/16in. (19 x 11.2cm)
- Object type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Object number
- 1984.413
- Credit line
- Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1984
Artist information
Italian, Florence 1501–1547 Rome
Subjects and terms
- Swords
- Alexander The Great
- Men
The Met object ID 340465. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.