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Two Standing Male Figures

1501–47
Not on view
In his late works Perino evolved an increasingly mannered style given to demonstrations of effortless complexity, artifice, grace, and fanciful invention. These ponderous, artfully posed figures, lumbering yet vaporous, their impossibly tiny heads perched atop elongated and swollen bodies, are quintessential exemplars of a figure canon that proved immensely influential for subsequent artists working in Rome through the end of the sixteenth century. A very similar drawing by Perino representing two standing draped women, also from the collections of Peter Lely and William, Second Duke of Devonshire, belongs to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (inv. PD.33-1998, from the collection of the late John Gere.)

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Two Standing Male Figures
  • Artist: Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) (Italian, Florence 1501–1547 Rome)
  • Date: 1501–47
  • Medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on brownish paper
  • Dimensions: 8 3/16 × 7 5/16 in. (20.8 × 18.6 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961
  • Object Number: 61.180
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Christ and the Daughter of the Centurion, Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk
Christ and the Daughter of the Centurion
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
Anonymous, Italian, 16th century
16th century
Sketch for a wall panel in the Sala Paolina at Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome, Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian, Pen and brown ink
Sketch for a wall panel in the Sala Paolina at Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
ca. 1546
Minerva from the "Doria Grotesques", Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian, Wool, silk (17-19 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.), Netherlandish, Brussels
Minerva from the "Doria Grotesques"
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
Joost van Herzeele
Designed 1545, woven ca. 1550
Allegory or Goddess (Juno?), Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian, Pen and brown ink
Allegory or Goddess (Juno?)
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
16th century
Design for a Grotesque Wall Decoration, Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian, Pen and brown ink
Design for a Grotesque Wall Decoration
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)
1501–47

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