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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Luca Signorelli. The drawing is of four male demons, all standing and nude. Each demon has two curved horns on the top of its head. It is an animated scene; two of them are standing with their hands on their hips, and the group appears to be conversing. The demon on the far right is holding up an object, possibly a book.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
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LUCA SIGNORELLI
(b. about 1441; d. 1523)
STUDIES FROM THE NUDE FOR A GROUP OF FOUR DEMONS
Collection of the Viscount Lascelles, K.G. From the Hone, Reynolds, Thomas Banks, and Poynter Collections. Charcoal. 35.3 x 28.7 cm. (13 7/8 x 11 1/4 in.).
The style and subject of this characteristically powerful drawing inevitably suggest that it was a preliminary study for a group in the frescoes of Orvieto Cathedral; but there is no passage corresponding to it either in the big lunettes or in the smaller circular and rectangular compartments painted in monochrome and illustrating scenes from the Divina Commedia. A comparison with the charcoal drawing of Virgil and Dante meeting Ugolino in the British Museum (1885. 5. 9. 41) reveals many points of contact, though the present sheet has still greater strength and boldness; another kindred example is the charcoal study, Two of the Damned seized and bound by Devils, in the Uffizi (Schönbrunner & Meder, 74).
T. B."
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Luca Signorelli, Studies from the Nude for a Group of Four Demons (LC 1131/1). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105366 | Go to resource |
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