Resurrection
Luca Cambiaso
c. 1570
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
24.2 × 33.7 cm (9 9/16 × 13 5/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81784
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...