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Description: | Unusually for the period, Beccafumi used the oil medium for this sketch of a man's head. This medium appears to have been chosen to allow the artist to develop the feeling of depth, created through a limited palette of brown and beige. This sketch comes from a series of studies of figures and heads which the artist produced in the 1520s and 1530s. In this work the artist created a facial type which resembles that found in Roman frescoes, and which suggests that Beccafumi had seen examples of these. This demonstrates the importance of classical art as a source of inspiration in the Renaissance. | Subjects: | figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Beccafumi, Domenico (Italian painter, 1486-1551) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8898... | Go to resource |
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