Shepherds in a Landscape
c. 1517
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
13.5 × 25.8 cm (5 3/8 × 10 3/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
111957
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This late work by Giulio Campagnola was unfinished when he died. It was completed by his adopted son, Domenico, who assisted his father’s business in Venice. The landscape on the right half of the sheet is by Giulio. The delicate tonalities are achieved by a variety of thin curved and straight lines and delicate stippling, a technique Giulio invented that was not easily copied. The musicians on the left side were engraved by Domenico, who used a more traditional style and heavier, wider linework...
About the Artist
Giulio Campagnola · 1482–1515
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...