The Entombment
Primary
Luca Cambiaso
(Moneglia, Italy, 1527–El Escorial, Spain, 1585)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Dateearly 1570s
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, laid down
DimensionsSheet: 11 11/16 × 8 3/8 in. (29.7 × 21.2 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.975
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.975
On View
Not on viewRelatively conventional in composition, calm in its articulation, and legible in narration, this drawing parallels the development of Cambiaso’s religious paintings after around 1570 in the tempering of virtuosity toward an accommodation of Counter-Reformation expectations.
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