Studies for Four Figures (recto); Composition Sketches for Groupings of Figures on Clouds (verso)
Jacopo Palma the Younger Italian
Not on view
This expressive sheet by Jacopo Palma the Younger, a younger contemporary of Tintoretto in Venice, includes, at upper right, a powerful study for Christ the Redeemer and, at lower left, three figures wrestling. The latter group was drawn after a replica of Michelangelo’s (1475–1564) lost model for a statue of Samson and two Philistines, which had been intended as a pendant to the master’s great marble David (1501–4) on the Piazza della Signoria, in Florence, but was never executed. Palma’s sketchy, bold brushwork and use of white highlights are hallmarks of Venetian draftsmanship from this period.
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