Battle of Amazons
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on brown wove paper
Dimensions
22.6 × 31.1 cm (8 15/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85866
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Lodovico Carracci · 1555–1619
Lodovico's style is charaterized by being less classical than that of his younger cousins, Agostino and Annibale, his figures have a sense of other-worldliness, and he is more influenced by Mannerist art than his cousins. Like his cousins, he espoused the direct study of nature, especially through figure drawing; he was influenced by the paintings of Correggio and the Venetians.