COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
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The AMICA Library
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AMICA ID:
MMA_.35.42
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MMA_.35.42
AMICA ID
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AMICA Library Year:
2000
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2000
AMICA Library Year
false
Object Type:
Prints
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Prints
Object Type
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Creator Name:
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de
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Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de
Creator Name
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Creator Nationality:
European; Iberian; Spanish
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European; Iberian; Spanish
Creator Nationality
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Creator Role:
artist
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artist
Creator Role
false
Creator Dates/Places:
Spanish, 1746-1828
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Spanish, 1746-1828
Creator Dates/Places
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Creator Name-CRT:
Francisco de Goya
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Francisco de Goya
Creator Name-CRT
false
Title:
Giant
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Giant
Title
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View:
Full View
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Full View
View
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Creation Date:
by 1818
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by 1818
Creation Date
false
Creation Start Date:
1818
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1818
Creation Start Date
false
Creation End Date:
1818
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1818
Creation End Date
false
Materials and Techniques:
Burnished aquatint; first state
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Burnished aquatint; first state
Materials and Techniques
false
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (28.5 x 21.01cm)
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Sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (28.5 x 21.01cm)
Dimensions
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AMICA Contributor:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
AMICA Contributor
false
Owner Location:
New York, New York, USA
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New York, New York, USA
Owner Location
false
ID Number:
35.42
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35.42
ID Number
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Credit Line:
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
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Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Credit Line
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Rights:
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<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/"target="_new">http://www.metmuseum.org/</a>
Rights
false
Context:
Evoking that uneasiness that wells up in us at the first thought of some unfathomable power, Goya's 'Giant' is staggering. This rarity ranks with works by Dürer and Rembrandt as one of the most impressive images ever printed from a copperplate.
Like a mezzotint engraver, Goya proceeded to scrape highlights into metal previously roughened with grainy aquatint. Thus he sculpted this gargantuan colossus-Prometheus, Zeus, god of war-or what you will, out of darkness. Everything that held Goya in awe seems to have been compacted into this mysterious, ominous being.
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<P>Evoking that uneasiness that wells up in us at the first thought of some unfathomable power, Goya's 'Giant' is staggering. This rarity ranks with works by Dürer and Rembrandt as one of the most impressive images ever printed from a copperplate.</P> <P>Like a mezzotint engraver, Goya proceeded to scrape highlights into metal previously roughened with grainy aquatint. Thus he sculpted this gargantuan colossus-Prometheus, Zeus, god of war-or what you will, out of darkness. Everything that held Goya in awe seems to have been compacted into this mysterious, ominous being.</P>
Context
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Related Image Identifier Link:
MMA_.dp35.42.R.tif
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MMA_.dp35.42.R.tif
Related Image Identifier Link
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