Study for the Purification of the Virgin
Giovanni Battista Naldini
c. 1577
Medium
Red and black chalk with stumping, and incising, over pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper, squared in black chalk
Dimensions
40.9 × 27.2 cm (16 1/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
122098
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Naldini · 1535–1591
Giovanni Battista Naldini (1537–1591) was a prominent Italian painter of the late Mannerist period, active primarily in Florence and Rome. Born in Florence, he began his artistic training at the remarkably young age of twelve, entering the studio of Jacopo Pontormo in 1549 for an eight-year apprenticeship that lasted until 1557. Pontormo's influence profoundly shaped Naldini's early style, instill...