Standing Academy
Andrea Boscoli
1585–1589
- Medium
- Red and black chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper, tipped onto cream board
- Dimensions
- 41.7 × 22.6 cm (16 7/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk sticksprints and drawinginorganic materialpaper (fiber product)
About
An eccentric exponent of the second generation of Florentine Mannerists, Boscoli demonstrates the emphasis on figurative draftsmanship characteristic of that era. Dating from a fairly early period, this study from a wax mannequin geometricizes and abstracts the precisely analyzed forms. Heir to Pontormo' s Mannerism, and influenced by Federico Barocci's vibrant light effects, Boscoli was a stylistically pivotal figure between the Renaissance and the Baroque.
