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[Sibyl and putto]
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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| Description | The suggestion that the figure is a copy of one on the vault of the Sistine Chapel is incorrect, but this sibyl may certainly have been inspired by Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican. The idea that the artist is in the ambient of Giorgio Vasari is possibly correct. There were many Bolognese and Florentine painters working in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century who would have been influenced by Michelangelo's work, including the Bolognese artists Lorenzo Sabbatini (1530-1576) and Orazio Samacchini (1532-1577), whose drawings approach this. Yet, the morphology of their forms and their more fluid compositions are unlike the more static figures of these two drawings. Instead, the author of these sheets is probably a Florentine, Bolognese, or other northern Italian artist who was working in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century. The polyglot nature of the sheet with its influences of Venetian color, Florentine and Bolognese form, and Roman and Michelangelesque volume indicate an artist who may have trained with any of the artists in the Vatican circle at this period. Scholars have attributed this sheet to various artists from Rome, Bologna, Verona, and Florence. It has also been considered to be by the same hand as a drawing of St. John the Evangelist in the collection of Marty de Cambiaire (Laurie Marty de Cambiaire, Dessins Gènois. Genoese Drawings, Florence, 2019, pp. 12-13, cat. no. 4) attributed to the Genoese artist Ottavio Semino (1520-1604). Mary Newcome (written communication) correctly rejects this attribution and a Genoese origin for the drawing. The figures in both sheets have similar lumpy facial features, voluminous billowy fabric, curlicue drapery folds, and a sculptural quality, features not found in Semino's more rapidly delineated figures, usually drawn with open contours. Neither are these characteristics of the elegant figures by the Veronese artist Paolo Farinati, who has also been proposed as the author. The blue paper and white highlighting are found in the sheets of artists from the Veneto, but found also in those of many other northern Italian draftsmen. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Drawings (Master) |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
