Rape of Proserpina
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Luca Cambiaso
(Moneglia, Italy, 1527–El Escorial, Spain, 1585)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Datecirca 1562-63
MediumPen and iron gall ink with brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk
DimensionsSheet: 14 1/2 × 18 9/16 in. (36.8 × 47.2 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.970
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.970
On View
Not on viewThis drawing is related to the Saint Sebastian in scale, complex space, calligraphic charge, and autonomous function. Its mythological subject and format, how-ever, correspond to the sort of scene Cambiaso and Bergamasco were contemporaneously introducing to the decoration of Genoese palaces. The sheet is further distinguished by its exceptional freshness, without any deterioration of the black-brown, iron gall ink favored by the artist or any fading of its sweeping washes
Possibly an autographed replica (Jonathan Bober 5/13/11)
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