Aurelio Lomi
1556-1622
Sheet of Studies, Including a Young Man Climbing a Column a Gesturing Nun, and a Half-Length Male Figure with a Turban
12 10/12 x 9 inches (325 x 230 mm)
Black chalk, with white, on paper tinted with brown wash.
2008.7
Gift of Margot and C. Leonard Gordon and purchased on the Herzog Fund.
Notes
This large-scale sheet depicts various figures that Lomi likely sketched from life in his studio. The figure at left holding a column could be a study for a similar figure in his Pisa Duomo Adoration. The nun depicted at right is probably a study for several nuns represented in Lomi's Madonna della cintola painted for the Chiesa di San Niccola in Pisa. The use of cross-hatching, loose lines and the visable interest in capturing the movement of figures and hands is characteristic of Lomi's work.
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Watermark: Eagle in circle, surmounted by crown.
Associated names
Gordon, Margot, former owner.
Gordon, C. Leonard, former owner.
Gordon, C. Leonard, former owner.
Bibliography
L. Turčić and M. Newcome, "Drawings by Aurelio Lomi" Paragone 42/499 (1991): 46, no. 32.
Mario di Giampaolo, "Aurelio Lomi disegnatore" in Disegni genovesi dal Cinquecento al Settecento: giornate di studio, 9-10 maggio 1989 (Florence: Ed. Medicea, 1992): 57-63, p. 59, fig. 15.
Maria Clelia Galassi, "Su alcuni monocromi di Aurelio Lomi: finalità e tipologie" Studi di storia delle arti, 9 (1997): 80-95, p. 84, fig. 4.
Mario di Giampaolo, "Aurelio Lomi disegnatore" in Disegni genovesi dal Cinquecento al Settecento: giornate di studio, 9-10 maggio 1989 (Florence: Ed. Medicea, 1992): 57-63, p. 59, fig. 15.
Maria Clelia Galassi, "Su alcuni monocromi di Aurelio Lomi: finalità e tipologie" Studi di storia delle arti, 9 (1997): 80-95, p. 84, fig. 4.
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