Saint John the Baptist Preaching
Luca Cambiaso
c. 1584
Medium
Pen and iron gall ink with brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
30.2 × 22.2 cm (11 15/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84629
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...