The Academy of Baccio Bandinelli

An engraving of a crowded studio interior with figures drawing and conversing around a long table and a hearth. Skeletons and a nude figure study lie on the floor in the foreground, while classical sculptures crowd a high shelf above. Sharp hatching defines the architecture and shadows.

Look closer: A small inscription is visible on the lower edge of the plate near the bottom center.

Artist

Enea Vico

Date

ca. 1544

Medium

Engraving; first state of two

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3757 × 2630 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917