View of the Capitoline Hill during Michelangelo's restoration, the equ

An engraved print shows a paved piazza centered on an equestrian statue atop an oval base, with a rider on horseback. Behind it rises a palace with a tower, a balustraded stair, and a loggia at right; a short Latin inscription runs along the lower margin. Fine parallel hatching models the stone and shadows.

Look closer: A small Latin inscription is engraved along the lower margin beneath the piazza.

Artist

Anonymous

Date

ca. 1561–63

Medium

Etching and engraving

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3717 × 2700 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941