1523
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Untitled is a 1523 by Agostino dei Musi, a Renaissance work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a strange, horned man standing on the left, holding a walking stick. To his right, an older man lies on a bed with a woman, while a small table and a curtained window fill the background. The scene looks like it’s happening at night, with a dark sky outside. The horned man’s face is twisted, almost like a demon. The artist used shading to make the figures pop out from the flat background. Look up Musi, Agostino dei to see more of his eerie, dramatic prints.
A print on paper by Agostino dei Musi, after a design by Raphael, depicts Lycaon in the act of transforming into a wolf as he prepares to attack the sleeping Jupiter; the impression is from the first state and is dated 1523.
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Agostino Veneziano ("Venetian Agostino"), whose real name was Agostino de' Musi (c. 1490 – c. 1540), was an important and prolific Italian engraver of the Renaissance.
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