In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Beccafumi was an important and extremely versatile Sienese artist––a painter of altarpieces, frescoes, and furniture, a sculptor in wood, stucco, and bronze, and a designer of a large portion of the inlaid marble floor in the Siena Cathedral. He was also one of the most imaginative, daring, and versatile printmakers of the Italian Renaissance. Although his first prints were engravings, in order to reproduce the rich, tonal effects of his drawings, Beccafumi began to make chiaroscuro woodcuts. Around 1547, he completed a series of six chiaroscuros of the apostles, including Saint Peter. These are the artist's most skillful, complex, and successful prints, and among the most extraordinary color prints in 16th-century Italy. The blocks were carved and printed in an innovative manner. In order to attain the brilliant highlights common in his chiaroscuro drawings, Beccafumi created the effect of thin white hatching lines on a dark ground. He also treated each impression as a separate work of art.
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Domenico Beccafumi — Saint Peter
Domenico Beccafumi — Saint Mark
Lambert Suavius|Lambert Lombard|Jakob Andreas Fridrich the E
Anonymous — Man Destroying Book
Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) — Saint Matthew, from "Chr
Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century — Saint Jo
Francisco de Herrera, the Elder — An Apostle Holding a Book
Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 15th to 16th century — Symboli
Lambert Suavius|Lambert Lombard|Jakob Andreas Fridrich the E
Lambert Suavius|Lambert Lombard|Jakob Andreas Fridrich the E
Antonio Maria I Zanetti (Italian, 1680–1757) — An Old Man St
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) — Saint Phil
