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
About the Artist
Lodovico Carracci
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.