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Cherubino Alberti , engraver
Italian, 1553 - 1615
The Torture of Prometheus, after Michelangelo, 1580
Engraving
42.7 x 28.1 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.36810

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after, Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Artist Biography: Learned painting and fresco from his father, Michele, but later took up engraving in the style of Cornelis Cort and Agostino Carracci. He made 1 etching known to Bartsch (B. 31).See: Sopher, Marcus. Sixteenth Century Italian Prints. Claremont: 1978.~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. vol. XVII. W¸rzburg: 1920.~Buffa, Sebastian. Italian Artists of the Sixteenth Century. The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 34. New York: 1982, Abaris Books.~~