Standing Academy

Prints and Drawings

c. 1587

Andrea Boscoli
Italian, c. 1560-1608

An eccentric exponent of the second generation of Florentine Mannerists, Boscoli demonstrates the emphasis on figurative draftsmanship characteristic of that era. Dating from a fairly early period, this study from a wax mannequin geometricizes and abstracts the precisely analyzed forms. Heir to Pontormo’ s Mannerism, and influenced by Federico Barocci’s vibrant light effects, Boscoli was a stylistically pivotal figure between the Renaissance and the Baroque.

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Artist: Andrea Boscoli
Title: Standing Academy
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1585–1589
Medium: Red and black chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper, tipped onto cream board
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "And[a] Boscoli"
Dimensions: 41.7 × 22.6 cm (16 7/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt and Otto L. and Hazel T. Rhoades funds; Margaret Day Blake Endowment
Reference Number: 1991.121
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Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 40, no. 42 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection,” Nov. 1, 2014-Feb. 1, 2015.

Friedrich Gauermann (died 1862), Vienna [Lugt 1003]. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Seger, Toronto [invoice in curatorial file]. Sold by William M. Brady and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1991.

McCullagh & Giles 42

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