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Emperor of Trebizond Constructing a Fondaco for Megollo Lercari
after 157216th century
24.5 cm x 42.2 cm (9 5/8 in. x 16 5/8 in.)
Workshop of Luca Cambiaso (Moneglia (Genoa), 1527 - 1585, Madrid) Primary
Object Type:
drawing
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017
Accession Number:
2017.981
The decoration of the Palazzo Lercari-Parodi was Cambiaso's most important secular commission of the 1570s. In the principal scene on the ceiling of the main room, the mythical emperor of Trebizond builds a warehouse and lodging at the order of the Lercari family's legendary forebear. The primary version of the preparatory study for this composition is in the Nationalmusem , Stockholm. The Suida-Manning version is a workshop replica of another preparatory drawing that evidently studied the distribution of light and shadow.
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