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Christ and the Canaanite Woman
Creator
Bagnacavallo (Bartholomeo Ramenghi)Italian Artist · 1484–1542
All works by this person →Scholars know nothing certain about the training of Bagnacavallo, who rose to fame in Bologna for his classical painting style influenced by Raphael. Certainly in Bologna by 1503, Bagnacavallo showed a graceful manner and elongated figures in his early paintings. Raphael's influence dominated Bagnacavallo's mature career, but scholars are uncertain whether they ever met. According to Giorgio Vasar
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- about 1530
- Medium
- Black chalk, pen and brown ink, and brown and gray wash
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Scholars are uncertain of both the subject and the artist of this drawing. It seems to show a scene from the Gospel of Saint Matthew. When Christ and his disciples were on their way to Cana, they met a woman who begged Christ to heal her sick daughter. Ignoring the protests of his followers, who objected that the woman was not an Israelite, Christ performed the miracle. With the top of the sheet cut into the shape of an arch, the balanced figures dominate the foreground plane. Behind them a rocky outcrop supports a cluster of trees, while the road winds across a river into the distance. To lighten the areas of darker wash, the artist used liberal amounts of white bodycolor in the landscape.
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