Submersion of Pharoah's Army in the Red Sea, after Paolo Farinati
1583
16th century
35.9 cm x 55.5 cm (14 1/8 in. x 21 7/8 in.)
Orazio Farinati
(Verona, circa 1559 - after 1616, Verona)
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Etching
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, University Purchase, by exchange, 1991
Accession Number:
1991.126
The counterpart of Paolo’s grand Conversion of Saint Paul, this was the largest, most complicated and most thoroughly Roman of etchings by Farinati and son. To judge from the large number of editions and extant impressions, the print was also their most successful.