Copia en busto del original de La Virgen de la Leche de Robert Campin (hacia 1375-1444) en el Stäedelsches Kunstinstitut de Francfort, repetido en numerosas ocasiones. Fragmentada, debía de tener en o [+]
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This is a facsimile copy, omitting some of the lines found in the original, of a drawing in the Uffizi, Florence, published by the Suidas as by Luca Cambiaso (in. no. 876) [+]
Another directly corresponding School version of this drawing was formerly in the Suida Manning Collection, New York, and is now in the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, at the University of Texas, Austi [+]
Through the open window is glimpsed a view of the piazza in front of the Doges´ Palace, behind the square is the basilica of S. Marco, the Campanile and the Torre dell´Orologio. Given the drawing´s su [+]
An annotation on the mount correctly identifies the drawing as a copy after Raphael´s picture in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, which is generally dated 1504-5. Being an offset, however, the design [+]
The old attribution is to: SCHIDONE. The style is clearly that of a follower of Cambiaso, and the treatment of the heads, especially that of the Virgin, suggests the work of Lazzaro Tavarone (c. 1556- [+]
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See the entry for the related drawing from the Cambiaso Album (no. 10, D01875). [+]
Apparently traced from a pen-and wash drawing by Cambiaso or a member of his studio in the Louvre, or from another, superior version of this drawing (inv. no. 9228). An identical composition occurs in [+]
The psychology of the group, with the Virgin bending her face down to kiss the Christ Child´s breast, and the cradling of his left foot in her left hand, are deftly conveyed by the minimum of means. T [+]
The composition, which I have been unable so far to identify, may have been taken from a print. The inventor of the design was evidently either Venetian or Veronese. [+]