Title:
Plate 12: Diana standing in a niche, twisting to her left and pulling an arrow out of a quiver, with a deer to her right, from a series of mythological gods and goddesses
Caption:
Plate 12: Diana standing in a niche, twisting to her left and pulling an arrow out of a quiver, with a deer to her right, from a series of mythological gods and goddesses. Artist: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio (Italian, Parma or Verona ca. 1500/1505-1565 Krakow (?)); After Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, Florence 1494-1540 Fontainebleau). Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 4 5/16 in. (21 × 10.9 cm). Series/Portfolio: Series of mythological gods and goddesses. Date: 1526.
Dated 1526, this print is one of a series of twenty depicting gods in niches, drawn for the engraver Caraglio by the Florentine Mannerist artist, Rosso Fiorentino.