The Holy Family
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Bartolomeo Biscaino
(Genoa, Italy, 1629–1657)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Datemid-1650s
MediumBrush and brown wash over red chalk with touches of black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 10 1/16 × 7 3/16 in. (25.5 × 18.3 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.916
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.916
On View
Not on viewBiscaino’s style was determined by the more stylized and lyrical painters in Genoa, Valerio Castello in particular, then further shaped by Castiglione. Drawings and etchings represent most of his brief activity. Their forms tend to be elastic in structure, iridescent in surface, and delicate in touch. This late drawing, explicit in its dependence upon Parmigianino’s types and Castiglione’s innovative techniques, is unusually bold.
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