Death of Adonis
Luca Cambiaso
c. 1562/1563
Medium
woodcut on laid paper
Dimensions
image (within borderline): 24.7 x 28.9 cm (9 3/4 x 11 3/8 in.) sheet: 26.8 x 32.3 cm (10 9/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth B. Benedict
Accession Number
1994.60.35
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...