Standing Male Figure
Jacopo da Empoli
c. 1600
Medium
Pen and iron gall ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
29.7 × 19.1 cm (11 3/4 × 7 9/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84648
About the Artist
Jacopo da Empoli · 1544–1640
Jacopo Chimenti, known as Jacopo da Empoli (1551-1640), was an Italian Florentine painter whose long career spanned the transition from late Mannerism to early Baroque. Born in Florence on April 30, 1551 (Empoli being his father's birthplace, from which Jacopo derived his artistic name), he became an important figure in the Counter-Maniera or Counter-Mannerist movement that reacted against the com...