Battle of Amazons, after Giuseppe Cesari, called Cavaliere d'Arpino
1600
17th century
29.3 cm x 39.6 cm (11 9/16 in. x 15 9/16 in.)
Antonio Tempesta
(Florence, Italy, 1555 - 1630, Rome, Italy)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Etching
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002
Accession Number:
2002.1354
Battle scenes have been a popular motif in Rome for millennia. Tempesta faithfully recreates the complicated rhythms of combat in Cavalier D’Arpino’s Battle Between the Greeks and the Amazons, from the frescoes of the Palazzo dei Conservatori.