Pieta Adamo Scultori Michelangelo Buonarroti (after) Antonio Lafréry (publisher)

Artist	Adamo Scultori Mantua, ca. 1530 – 1585 Michelangelo Buonarroti (after) Caprese, 1475 – Rome, 1564 Antonio Lafréry (publisher) Orgelet, Jura, 1512 – Rome, 1577
Culture	Italian
Place of production	Italy
Date	ca. 1566
Object type	print
Medium, technique	paper, engraving (third state of four)
Dimensions	360 x 280 mm (sheet, trimmed close to platemark)
Inventory number	5418
Collection	Prints and Drawings
On view	This artwork is not on display

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Signed lower center with monogram ‘AS’, inscribed on the belt of the Virgin: ‘MICHAEL ANGELVS BONAR’, in the lower margin. ‘MICH.ANG.BONAROTVS signa haec, quae in uaticano uisuntur, ita exacte perfecit; ut potius Parentam uirginem/extremo spiritu exanguem et con fectam et nati corpus miserabile emortuum doleas; quam demarmore positum putes’, dated: ‘Formis Romae M.D.L.XVI’ and inscribed with publisher’s address: ‘Romae Ant.o Lafrery.’

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