A Standing Sibyl with a Scroll
Luca Cambiaso
mid 1550s
Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 36.8 × 23.5 cm (14 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of Joan and David Maxwell
Accession Number
2016.75.1
About the Artist
Luca Cambiaso · 1527–1585
Luca Cambiaso (1527–1585) was an Italian painter and draftsman who dominated artistic life in Genoa during the second half of the sixteenth century and became one of the most innovative draftsmen of the Late Renaissance. Born in Moneglia near Genoa, he trained under his father, the painter Giovanni Cambiaso, and demonstrated precocious talent, reportedly completing his first public fresco commissi...