Kneeling Man
ca. 1544
Red chalk, with a few stylus indentations. Original sheet trimmed to the edge of the figure and laid down.
A red chalk drawing depicts a man kneeling and looking upwards with his head tilted back. He is draped in flowing fabric that covers his lower body and one arm. A red chalk drawing depicts a man kneeling and looking upwards with his head tilted back. He is draped in flowing fabric that covers his lower body and one arm. The leading artist in Siena during his lifetime, Domenico Beccafumi was given the important commission of designing the pavement (mosaic floor) for the city’s cathedral, a project that occupied m... Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, Fund
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