Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

1560s

Italian 16th Century, after Luca Cambiaso

Drawn with brown ink and shaded with brown wash, three men hold a fourth down on a platform-like heated grate as another bends over to stoke the fire on this horizontal sheet of paper. The man on the grill writhes with hands and one foot lifted high. Another muscular person in the background to the left brings a bundle of planks, presumably firewood. Seven others, including a woman holding a baby, stand mostly in pairs around the grill, some of them leaning on chest-high ledges or against columns. More people are loosely sketched beyond the low wall to the right and looking on from rectangular window openings along the back of the space. Writing in the lower left corner under the image reads, “Luca Cangiazi.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of red chalk on laid paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    The Edith Tanenbaum Rudolf Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 38.6 × 56.1 cm (15 3/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
    mount: 28.9 × 56.1 cm (11 3/8 × 22 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.26.4


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's, New York, 12 January 1995, no. 288); (Edith Rudolf Gallery, New York); Edith T. Rudolf, New York; gift to NGA in 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and brown ink: Luca Cangiazi; by later hand,m lower right verso : Cambiaso (Luca) 1527 - 1585 / A Martyr of Saint Lawrence / numerous figures within fine architectural / building / Pen & bistre wash / a fine example; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 24/10

Wikidata ID

Q64578977


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