D1232

biacca

Maestri del disegno - Genova - 1990

The identification of the artist as Ludovico Carracci and the linking of the drawing to a painting on copper in the National Art Gallery of Ferrara is thanks to M. Newcome Schleier. The painting was originally included, together with that of his cousin Agostino, in the dome of the monumental wooden ciborium of the Certosa di San Cristoforo in Ferrara, completed in 1597. From a stylistic point of view, it is typical of Ludovico Carracci's drawings from the mid-1590s, with their “very fine lines and strong chiaroscuro contrast achieved with white lead highlights, in a context with a marked pictorial effect” (Boccardo 1999, entry no. 3). The manna harvest