Resumen de Some New Drawings by Polidoro da Caravaggio from His Sicilian Period
The writer examines three new double-sided drawings by Polidoro da Caravaggio, all of which appear to date from around the mid 1530s, when he was in Sicily. The artist spent his last 15 years working in Sicily, but his output there cannot be easily unraveled because archival documents have been lost. The later paintings that do survive are almost without exception bizarre in style and technique, to the extent that in some cases the very attributions of apparent originals will remain a source of permanent debate. Conversely, there are many late drawings, and their attributions are relatively straightforward. The writer goes on to examine the three newly discovered drawings, two of which are in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and the other (an unpublished drawing) in the collection of the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta.
