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Shepherds in a Landscape

Giulio CampagnolaLinkedCulture matchlcp-ea82d1bbb425

Date: c. 1517
Medium: engraving
Culture: Italy, 16th century
Department: Prints
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 125873

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This depiction of a group of shepherds seated in a landscape is a pictorial manifestation of Arcadia. Two different artists completed the composition—the son (Domenico) of the original artist (Giulio) added the shepherds playing instruments to his father’s landscape— and their distinctive styles can be observed on the right and left sides. Such “pastoral concerts” posed contrasts between urban and pastoral worlds. The spatial layout of this image is ambiguous, offering less a natural experience of landscape than an atmospheric, constructed space full of delicate surfaces, patterns, and lines. This composition was begun by Giulio Campagnola, who made the landscape, and finished by his son, Domenico, who completed the figures.

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Credit line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Provenance: ?–1948: (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | January 28, 1948–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH