Emperor of Trebizond Constructing a Fondaco for Megollo Lercari
Primary
Workshop of Luca Cambiaso
(Moneglia, Genoa, Italy, 1527–Madrid, Spain, 1585)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Dateafter 1572
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash
DimensionsSheet: 9 5/8 × 16 5/8 in. (24.5 × 42.2 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.981
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.981
On View
Not on viewThe decoration of the Palazzo Lercari-Parodi was Cambiaso's most important secular commission of the 1570s. In the principal scene on the ceiling of the main room, the mythical emperor of Trebizond builds a warehouse and lodging at the order of the Lercari family's legendary forebear. The primary version of the preparatory study for this composition is in the Nationalmusem , Stockholm. The Suida-Manning version is a workshop replica of another preparatory drawing that evidently studied the distribution of light and shadow.
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