The Entombment
early 1570s
16th century
29.7 cm x 21.2 cm (11 11/16 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 black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, laid down
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017
Accession Number:
2017.975
Relatively conventional in composition, calm in its articulation, and legible in narration, this drawing parallels the development of Cambiaso’s religious paintings after around 1570 in the tempering of virtuosity toward an accommodation of Counter-Reformation expectations.