Biagio Pupini

Biagio Pupini belongs to the Italian Renaissance current that looked back to Raphael, and his drawings translate that inheritance into fluid pen and wash studies of figures and biblical narrative. The sheets here rely on brown ink and wash over blue paper, often lifted with white heightening, a combination that gives the forms a cool, luminous relief. Three drawings from 1511 represent him in this archive, among them a winged figure group, the Judgment of Solomon and a Transfiguration after Raphael.

3 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

The Judgment of Solomon, after Raphael

1511–51 · Charcoal, brush and gray wash, highlighted with white, on blue paper

The Transfiguration, after Raphael

1511–51 · Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over traces of charcoal, on blue paper

A Winged Figure, two Women, and a Man

early–mid-16th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white on blue paper.