Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Rising Sun
Luca Cambiaso
1527–85
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; squared in red chalk
Dimensions
9 9/16 x 14in. (24.3 x 35.5cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.168
Tags
ApolloHorsesChariots
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...