Apollo, Neptune, Pluto, and Athena ART PRINT

This engraving depicting Apollo on the far left, Nepture who holds a fork, Pluto who wears a helmet, while Athena sits on the right, is from a series of prints- Gods and Godesses in roundels dating back to mid-1500s. Its deliberate relief like appearance relates to Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Galerie d'Ulysse at the Palace of Fontainebleau, commissioned by King François (Francis) I of France. Ghisi probably worked from Primaticcio's preparatory drawings and not from the ceiling itself. Giorgio Ghisi (1520-1582) was a leading printmaker of the period who came from Mantua and worked in France.