Title: Empedocles, standing frontally with his head turned in three-quarter view, directs his gaze toward a flame (the crater of Mount Aetna?) emerging from a horizontal ground line, a walking stick leans toward the right margin
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1545–63
Artist:  René Boyvin 
Artist bio: French, Angers ca. 1525–1598 or 1625/6 Angers
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 7/16 x 6 1/2 in. (26.5 x 16.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Philosophers