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Bartolomeo Coriolano

Bust of Sleeping Cupid

1627/53
Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in grayish-green and black on cream laid paper
29.8 × 37.8 cm (11.7 × 14.9 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

In chiaroscuro woodcutting, lines stand in relief, printed in different colors and shades. Several printing blocks are used so that the forms seem strongly modeled, with striking contrasts of light and dark. Bartolomeo Coriolano used the medium to transform Guido Reni’s delicately slumbering cupid into a monumental figure with strong diagonal accents in his bow and wings.

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