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View at the museum ↗Sophronia Enters the Palace of Aladin
Andrea Boscoli1604/06
- Attribution
- Andrea Boscoli Italian, 1550–1606
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, over touches of red chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on blue laid laminated card
- Physical dimensions
- 23.9 × 17.9 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
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This is one of a number of drawings the artist made to illustrate scenes from Torquato Tasso’s epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata), first published in 1581. In order to avert a massacre, Sophronia (seen at left) enters the palace of the Muslim ruler of Jerusalem to plead her Christian people’s innocence. Andrea Boscoli’s style is characterized by a heavy use of wash, with a calligraphic line that delineates form with great subtlety. He juxtaposes a plunging perspective at left with the up-close palace colonnade at right to create a sense of negative-positive visual tension.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0