Pieta; The Body of Christ Supported by the Virgin, Another Female Saint, and St. Joseph of Arimathea Cherubino Alberti after Michelangelo Buonarroti 1560-1590

Pieta; The Body of Christ Supported by the Virgin, Another Female Saint, and St. Joseph of Arimathea
Cherubino Alberti after Michelangelo Buonarroti 1560-1590
From the collection of
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Details
Title: Pieta; The Body of Christ Supported by the Virgin, Another Female Saint, and St. Joseph of Arimathea
Creator: Cherubino Alberti after Michelangelo Buonarroti
Date Created: ca. 1560-1590
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/Obj172
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1958
Materials & Techniques: Engraving
Keywords: Bible, Jesus, mothers, New Testament, religions, religious art
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 465 mm x 307 mm (18.31 in. x 12.09 in.).
Bibliography: Bartsch 23 (vol. 17, p. 58), cat. 90, no. 5; Patricia Emison, The Simple Art: Printed Images in an Age of Magnificence (Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire, 2006), cat. no. 1, pp. 25–26; Bernardine Barnes, Michelangelo in Print: Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century (Ashgate, 2010), pp. 146–148, plate 6.1
Associated People: Created by Cherubino Alberti (Italian, 1553-1615), After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564)
Accession Number: 1958.51.1

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

The Davison Art Center (DAC) holds Wesleyan University's collection of more than 25,000 works of art, chiefly European and American prints and photographs. The DAC collection, which is among the finest print collections at any U.S. university, is used extensively for teaching and learning from objects, scholarly research and publication, and gallery exhibitions open to the public.

Cherubino Alberti
Feb 24, 1553 - Oct 18, 1615

Cherubino Alberti, also called Borghegiano, was an Italian engraver and painter. He is most often remembered for the Roman frescoes completed with his brother Giovanni Alberti during the papacy of Clement VIII. He was most prolific as an engraver of copper plates.
http://hisour.com/art-medium/print/pieta-the-body-of-christ-supported-by-the-virgin-another-female-saint-and-st-joseph-of-arimathea-cherubino-alberti-after-michelangelo-buonarroti-1560-1590/