Title: Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot, Study for a Fresco in the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1501–47
Artist:  Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) 
Artist bio: Italian, Florence 1501–1547 Rome
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash highlighted with white; squared in black chalk
Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 4 7/16in. (19 x 11.2cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1984
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Swords, term: Alexander The Great, term: Men