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Bust of Sleeping Cupid
Bartolomeo Coriolano1627/53
- Attribution
- Bartolomeo Coriolano (Italian, c. 1599-c. 1676) after Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642)
- Medium
- Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in grayish-green and black on cream laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 29.8 × 37.8 cm (11 3/4 × 14 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.2 × 38 cm (11 15/16 × 15 in.)
- Credit line
- Katharine Shea Memorial Fund
CATALOGUE RECORD
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In chiaroscuro woodcutting, lines stand in relief, printed in different colors and shades. Several printing blocks are used so that the forms seem strongly modeled, with striking contrasts of light and dark. Bartolomeo Coriolano used the medium to transform Guido Reni’s delicately slumbering cupid into a monumental figure with strong diagonal accents in his bow and wings.
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