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Landscape with Fortified City and Rising Sun
Creator
Domenico CampagnolaItalian Artist · 1500–1564
All works by this person →A German artisan's son, child prodigy Domenico Campagnola probably learned from his adopted father, who instructed him in painting, drawing, engraving, and woodcutting. After his father's death around 1516, Campagnola was Venice's foremost printmaker. He innovated by cutting woodblocks himself rather than employing a professional woodcutter. His earliest prints and drawings show the influence of G
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- about 1516–1517
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 08e11c03-35c3-4d5a-b4fb-a963d8391937
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Depicting a fortified city in the background with the sun rising between two peaks, this highly finished drawing by Domenico Campagnola stands as an autonomous work of art. The Venetian artist, who trained as a printmaker, employed flowing, rhythmic strokes that evoke the graphic language of woodcuts, particularly those of Titian. The drawing was likely intended for a cultivated collector of works on paper.
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