Allegorical Subject (Angel above Two Sibyls)
Luca Cambiaso
1560/65
Medium
Pen and iron gall ink and brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
Dimensions
27.5 × 25.4 cm (10 7/8 × 10 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80922
About the Artist
Luca Cambiaso · 1527–1585
Luca Cambiaso (1527–1585) was an Italian painter and draftsman who dominated artistic life in Genoa during the second half of the sixteenth century and became one of the most innovative draftsmen of the Late Renaissance. Born in Moneglia near Genoa, he trained under his father, the painter Giovanni Cambiaso, and demonstrated precocious talent, reportedly completing his first public fresco commissi...