DETAILS
- Artist
- Ventura Salimbeni
- Date
- 1571
- Medium
- Red chalk, over traces of an illegible sketch in black chalk.
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 10 5/8 x 6 1/2 in. (27 x 16.5 cm)
- Collection
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
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THE ARTIST
Ventura Salimbeni
Ventura Salimbeni, a Sienese Counter-Maniera painter and printmaker, brought dramatic light and innovative perspectives to Italian churches in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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