Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century
Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, active in the 17th century, belongs to the broad current of Baroque draftsmanship centered on Rome and Bologna, where red chalk was a favored medium for studying heads and figures. The single sheet held here, Nine heads after Paolo Veronese, is drawn in red chalk on light tan paper, a technique suited to the soft modeling and repeated facial types the composition explores. It offers a compact example of how seventeenth-century Italian artists absorbed and reworked the example of earlier masters through drawing.
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