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Avanzino Nucci
(1552 - 1629)
Briarée aux cent bras, la chimère et les gorgones
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Thierry Le Mage
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
figure study
Chimera
Aeneas
mythological scene
Gorgons
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About the artwork
Title:
Briarée aux cent bras, la chimère et les gorgones
Periods:
17th century
renaissance
16th century
XVIth century
XVIIth century
Techniques:
blue paper
white highlights
pen (drawing)
black chalk
wash with brown
brown ink
Dimensions:
210 x 544
Inventory number:
INV10510-recto
Detail:
Fait partie d'une série de dessins illustrant la descente d'Enée aux enfers à partir de l'Enéide
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Avanzino Nucci
Born:
1552
Dead:
1629
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Avanzino Nucci
(c. 1552–1629) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period. He was born in Gubbio and died in Rome. He trained with Niccolò Circignani (il Pomarancio). Bernardino Gagliardi was one of his pupils. His paintings can be found in the Roman churches of San Rocco all'Augusteo, San Silvestro al Quirinale, and San Paolo fuora le Mura. Some more paintings dated 1596 are in the parlour of the ex Charthusian Monastery and now museum of S. Martino in Naples. They represent the…
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