Head of a Boy (verso)

Head of a Boy (verso) by Giulio Campagnola

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.11.25.b

About the Artist

Giulio Campagnola · 14821515

Giulio Campagnola (c. 1482–c. 1515) was born in Padua, within the Republic of Venice, to Girolamo Campagnola, a noted humanist scholar and writer who may have been an amateur painter. Exceptionally gifted from youth, by age fifteen he was praised as a poet, musician, linguist in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and skilled in painting, engraving, and gem-cutting, prompting efforts to secure him a positio...

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