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Ajax lower left holding a shield aloft, at the right stands Agamemnon surrounded by his soldiers

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

Ajax lower left holding a shield aloft, at the right stands Agamemnon surrounded by his soldiers

Niccolò Vicentino|Polidoro da Caravaggio

Date
1540–50
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in gray
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 in. × 16 1/2 in. (30.5 × 41.9 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
22.73.3-66
Credit line
Rogers Fund, 1922
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Italian, active ca. 1510–ca. 1550|Italian, Caravaggio ca. 1499–ca. 1543 Messina

The Met object ID 633699. 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.