Aurelio Lomi

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Aurelio Lomi
1556-1622
Sheet of Studies, Including a Young Man Climbing a Column a Gesturing Nun, and a Half-Length Male Figure with a Turban
Black chalk, with white, on paper tinted with brown wash.
12 10/12 x 9 inches (325 x 230 mm)
Gift of Margot and C. Leonard Gordon and purchased on the Herzog Fund.
2008.7
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This large-scale sheet depicts various figures that Lomi likely sketched from life in his studio. The figure at left holding a column could be a study for a similar figure in his Pisa Duomo Adoration. The nun depicted at right is probably a study for several nuns represented in Lomi's Madonna della cintola painted for the Chiesa di San Niccola in Pisa. The use of cross-hatching, loose lines and the visable interest in capturing the movement of figures and hands is characteristic of Lomi's work.

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Watermark: Eagle in circle, surmounted by crown.

Provenance: 
Sale, Sotheby's London, 11 December 1980, lot 13; Margot and C. Leonard Gordon, New York.
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Gordon, Margot, former owner.
Gordon, C. Leonard, former owner.

Bibliography: 

L. Turčić and M. Newcome, "Drawings by Aurelio Lomi" Paragone 42/499 (1991): 46, no. 32.
Mario di Giampaolo, "Aurelio Lomi disegnatore" in Disegni genovesi dal Cinquecento al Settecento: giornate di studio, 9-10 maggio 1989 (Florence: Ed. Medicea, 1992): 57-63, p. 59, fig. 15.
Maria Clelia Galassi, "Su alcuni monocromi di Aurelio Lomi: finalità e tipologie" Studi di storia delle arti, 9 (1997): 80-95, p. 84, fig. 4.

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Lomi, Aurelio
School: 
Italian
Century: 
17th century
Classification: 
Drawing
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Drawings and Prints