Art Archive

Tommaso Piroli

Tommaso Piroli was an engraver and draftsman whose reproductive prints carried major compositions of earlier masters into wider circulation. His plates, cut with a burin in a restrained linear manner, served the neoclassical taste for clear outline and ordered form, and his subjects drew on religious narrative and monumental painting. The archive holds two sheets by him: one engraving and one drawing in ink and graphite, with impressions up to 1772 according to the Met's dating.

2 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Tommaso Piroli — Last Judgment, after Michelangelo
Last Judgment, after Michelangelo
1752–1824 · Ink and graphite
Tommaso Piroli — The Entombment (1772–1824)
The Entombment (1772–1824)
1772–1824 · Engraving