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Alexander the Great commanding that the work of Homer be placed in the tomb of Achilles

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

Alexander the Great commanding that the work of Homer be placed in the tomb of Achilles

Marcantonio Raimondi

Date
ca. 1500–1534
Medium
Engraving; first state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 7/8 × 15 11/16 in. (25.1 × 39.8 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
17.50.16-5
Credit line
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?)

Subjects and terms

  • Tombs
  • Alexander The Great
  • Homer

The Met object ID 342676. 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.