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Object Type
Museum number: 1928,1212.10
Description: The crucifixion of Haman. A naked man, crucified on a dead tree; after Michelangelo. Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Cornelis Bos; After: Michelangelo
School/style
Production date: 1550 (circa)
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Dimensions: Height: 96 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 52 millimetres
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Curator's comments: After the fresco on the left-hand spandrel above the 'The Last Judgement' in the Sistine chapel but painted some thirty years ealier as part of the ceiling cycle commissioned by Julius II. For another impression see 1874,0711.751. Lit.: B. Barnes, `Michelangelo in Print`, Farnham, 2010, fig. 2.7, p. 44; no. 14, p. 191.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (27); Schéle 1965 / Cornelis Bos: A study of the origins of the Netherland grotesque (23); Barnes 2010 / Michelangelo in Print: Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century (14)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1928
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1928,1212.10

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