Detail View: The AMICA Library: Three Male Nudes
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1958.313
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AMICA Library Year:
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1999
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Beccafumi, Domenico
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Southern European; Italian
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1484 - 1551
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Birth Place:
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Cortine, in Valdiviana Montaperti
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Creator Death Place:
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Siena
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Domenico Beccafumi
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Title:
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River Gods
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Title Type:
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Former
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Title:
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Two Reclining Male Nudes
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Title Type:
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Alternate
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Title:
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Three Reclining Male Nudes
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Title Type:
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Exhibition
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Title:
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Study for Moses and the Israelites Drinking
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Title Type:
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Alternate
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Title:
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Three Male Nudes
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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c. 1535
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Creation Start Date:
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1530
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Creation End Date:
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1540
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Creation Date:
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c. 1540-1547
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Creation Start Date:
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1540
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Creation End Date:
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1547
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Materials and Techniques:
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black chalk or charcoal (stumped in places), with traces of brush and black chalk wash, heightened with white; incised, framing lines in black chalk or charcoal (top and bottom), on light brown laid paper (discolored), laid down on a secondary support (not visible), laid on a tertiary support of laid paper
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Classification Term:
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Drawing
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Dimensions:
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Sheet: 23.2cm x 41.7cm, Secondary Support: 23.2cm x 41.9cm, Tertiary Support: 24.8cm x 42.7cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1958.313
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Credit Line:
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Delia E. Holden Fund
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Inscriptions:
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tertiary support, along bottom, in brown ink: Becco Fumi, il Mecarino da Siena. 1404-1549 Domenico Beccafumi; lower right, in brown ink: from vol 1.st P. [1?]2.
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Rights:
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Provenance:
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The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery; [his sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1917, lot 511 (lot included Madonna Ascending to Heaven by Simone Cantarini; sold to Moore according to Cleveland 1979)]; Archibald George Blomefield Russel (Lugt 2770a, lower center, in black ink); [his sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1955, lot 1 (repr.)]; A. Scharf, London (according to Cleveland 1979).
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Context:
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Chiaroscuro drawing, a common technique in the 1500s, is usually done on a medium toned sheet with dark colors indicating the outlines and shadows and white pigment used for the highlights. Prints imitating these drawings were popular at the time. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1958.313.tif
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