Virgin Carrying the Christ Child
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Giovanni Battista Paggi
(Genoa, Italy, 1554–1627)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Date1570s
MediumPen and brown ink
DimensionsSheet: 11 1/4 × 7 in. (28.6 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1268
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1268
On View
Not on viewThe iconography and composition of this drawing are obviously related to those of Luca Cambiaso. The artist, however, has little of Cambiaso's sense of structure, rather a preference for decorative flourish. These tendencies and the telltale abbreviation of the figures' eyes indicate that it is a very early drawing by Paggi.
Exhibitions
Circle of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1745