Minneapolis Institute of Art
Fighting Horsemen
Luca Cambiaso or his workshopLinkedCulture matchlcp-e301912ef00d
- Date
- c. 1565–66
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 8560
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
The virtuoso draftsman Luca Cambiaso was the leading artist of 16th-century Genoa. He was so prolific that his wife and his servant reportedly stoked the fire with his drawings. Even so, thousands of studies by his hand survive, more than by any other Renaissance artist. This sketch exhibits Cambiaso’s trademark cubic simplification of forms—in the heads, arms, and legs of the riders—and distinctive swift handling and lively pen lines. His inventive figural vocabulary and imaginative compositions inspired hundreds of imitators, making it difficult to distinguish his drawings from those of his followers. The watermark on this sheet locates the paper in or near Cambiaso’s studio. Italy, Europe
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- Credit line
- Gift of funds from David M. Daniels
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