Art Institute of Chicago
Bust of Sleeping Cupid
Bartolomeo Coriolano (Italian, c. 1599-c. 1676)
- Date
- 1627/53
- Medium
- Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in grayish-green and black on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
In chiaroscuro woodcutting, lines stand in relief, printed in different colors and shades. Several printing blocks are used so that the forms seem strongly modeled, with striking contrasts of light and dark. Bartolomeo Coriolano used the medium to transform Guido Reni’s delicately slumbering cupid into a monumental figure with strong diagonal accents in his bow and wings.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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