Kaïn slaat Abel dood met de ezelskinnebak
Domenico Passignano
1590 - 1599
Medium
pen
Dimensions
207; 220
About this artwork
…; from the dealer P. Brandt , Amsterdam, fl. 145, with two other drawings, to the museum, 1936
About the Artist
Domenico Passignano · 1559–1638
Domenico Cresti (1559–1638), known as Il Passignano after his birthplace, was a Florentine painter who successfully synthesized Venetian colorism with Florentine disegno, creating a distinctive late Mannerist style that earned him prestigious commissions from both the Medici court and the papacy. Born in 1559 in Passignano, near Florence, Cresti received papal knighthood from Pope Clement VIII and...