Art Institute of Chicago
Crew Abandoning Ship (recto) Sketches of Corinthian Columns (verso)
Lazzaro Tavarone
- Date
- c. 1600
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This sheet presents a series of studies of ships in different action scenes. In the upper left, Tavarone rendered a ship in full sail with the whole crew depicted. To the right, fainter strokes render the outlines of other vessels mid-sail. In the sheet’s dramatic lower register, a vessel lilts far on its right side, while sailors bend under the weight of the items they carry off board the sinking ship. For the small, mercantile city-state of Genoa, shipwrecks were events of commercial and political consequence. They served as a reminder of the risky and uncertain fortunes of a society built on maritime trade.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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