Studies for a Resurrected Christ

Artist Jacopo Palma, il giovane (Italian, ca. 1544 - 1628)

Datec. 1611

MediumPen and brown ink

DimensionsImage: 11 10/16 x 8 1/8 in. (29.4 x 20.6 cm.)
SHEET: 15 1/4 x 11 15/16 in. (38.7 x 30.3 cm)

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1977

Object numberSN960

This drawing is by the prolific Venetian artist, Jacopo Palma il Giovane, who was known as il giovane or "the younger," to distinguish him from his great uncle also named Jacopo. Palma, who worked closely with the 16th-century Venetian masters-Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto-was highly aware of the waning interest in their pictorial traditions towards the end of the century. As such, his mature work is a complex synthesis of Titian's tenebrism, Tintoretto's broken brushwork, and his own naturalism. This sheet of studies, executed in pen and brown ink, seems to be primarily interested in motion. The twisting torso and bent legs are worked out from a variety of angles, and have a spontaneous feel. The studies scale the page in a sinuous motion that mimics the very subject matter, suggesting that Palma's studies were in fact carefully conceived and premeditated.

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