Sophronia Enters the Palace of Aladin
<p>This is one of a number of drawings the artist made to illustrate scenes from Torquato Tasso’s epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata), first published in 1581. In order to avert a massacre, Sophronia (seen at left) enters the palace of the Muslim ruler of Jerusalem to plead her Christian people’s innocence.</p> <p>Andrea Boscoli’s style is characterized by a heavy use of wash, with a calligraphic line that delineates form with great subtlety. He juxtaposes a plunging perspective at left with the up-close palace colonnade at right to create a sense of negative-positive visual tension.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1604
- Dimensions
- 23.9 × 17.9 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Andrea Boscoli
Artist
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Martyrdom of Saint Peter
1598 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, tipped on to light blue laid paper
Christ Entering Jerusalem
1595 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
Olympias, Mother of Alexander, Visited by Zeus in the Guise of a Serpent
1595 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and grayish-green wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Kneeling Figure from the Back (recto); Three Half-length Studies of Veiled Female Figure (verso)
1595 · Red chalk (recto and verso) on tan laid paper
Staand mannelijk naaktmodel
1592 · paper, chalk
Standing Academy
1585 · Red and black chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper, tipped onto cream board
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- Andrea Boscoli
- Year
- 1604
- Dimensions
- 23.9 × 17.9 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1604-119058
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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