Design for a Frieze with Worshipers Bringing Sacrificial Offerings

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Design for a Frieze with Worshipers Bringing Sacrificial Offerings

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Lelio Orsi

Italian Artist · 1511–1587

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Lelio Orsi studied with his painter father, but very early on he incorporated into his polished, illusionistic style the two influences that remained primary throughout his life: Giulio Romano's exaggerated movement and excitability and Correggio's poignant passion and vibrant way of seeing. By 1538 Orsi had moved to a larger nearby town, Reggio Emilia, where he painted many architectural facades

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Bearing sacrificial offerings that include a sheep and a ram *,* worshipers approach a statue of Jupiter at the right. While he took the subject matter and composition of the frieze from classical art, Lelio Orsi departed from classicism's characteristic calm and balance by populating the frieze with vigorous, squat figures who sometimes overlap the architecture. The liberal excesses of Orsi's later style are evident in the large-headed, gross-featured youth at right who presents his knifepoint for a woman to touch. Imitating an antique *bas-relief* , the relief is set into a convincing architectural structure with telamones supporting the entablature on either side. Orsi's exaggerated *chiaroscuro* helps to achieve the three-dimensional effect. Such sculptural illusionism distinguishes his drawings from those of his Mannerist contemporaries. Orsi was well known for his painted decorations on the interiors of buildings, most of which have been destroyed. Scholars know many of his designs for friezes, similarly squared for transfer, which they have often connected with decorative projects in his hometown of Novellara.

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Artist/Maker
Lelio Orsi
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103R4Y
Date
about 1555
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, partially squared in black chalk,, on ocher paper
Culture
Italian
Object Type
Drawing

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02898326-3a27-43eb-8221-00c6d19f292f
Object Type
Drawing
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Creator
Lelio Orsi
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Culture
Italian
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Medium
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, partially squared in black chalk,, on ocher paper
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Drawings
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Date
about 1555
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1555
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1555
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