Saint Michael and the Damned Souls
1568-69
16th century
27.6 cm x 21.3 cm (10 7/8 in. x 8 3/8 in.)
Luca Cambiaso
(Moneglia, Italy, 1527 - 1585, El Escorial, Spain)
Primary
Object Type:
drawing
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over traces of red chalk
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017
Accession Number:
2017.973
Again in collaboration, Bergamasco and Cambiaso created a grand cycle of the Last Judgment in the apse of Santissima Annunziata di Portoria. This drawing is one of several preliminary ideas for the canvas of The Damned. It is an early in-stance of the singularly systematic and reductive style, often called “cubic”, that characterizes Cambiaso’s later compositional studies.