Saint Jerome and Saint Anthony Abbot
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Bernardino Campi
(Cremona, Lombardy, Italy, 1522–Reggio nell'Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, 1595)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Date1567
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, black chalk, and white heightening
DimensionsSheet: 20 5/8 × 15 1/16 in. (52.4 × 38.2 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Purchase through the generosity of the Still Water Foundation, 2001.53
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2001.53
On View
Not on viewThis grand sheet is the final compositional study––a modello––for an altarpiece (at left) that was executed in 1567 for the church of San Sigismondo at Cremona. The church, a virtual museum of the school of Cremona, includes several of the artist’s most important works. Especially since Campi was resident in Milan at the time of the commission, the modello was surely a demonstration of the intended composition to patrons. Unique in the artist’s surviving oeuvre, this drawing was feared to be a copy after the painting when it appeared at auction. It is now widely admired as one of his greatest drawings.
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