Description:
dog with ball in lower right corner near man with staff semi-reclining on rocks under a rude shelter built into a rock wall in a landscape with small building in mid-distance
Label Text:
Label text for ARH 240 French and Italian Drawings Renaissance through Romanticism, written by Ellen Monroe, class of 2015:
This meticulously rendered drawing was not necessarily created in preparation for a larger painting, but may have been made as part of a series of prints of hermit saints. Muziano executed this scene first in chalk, which is erasable, then developed it further in ink—a more permanent medium—demonstrating his technical skill. Set in a bucolic Italian landscape, the scene depicts St. Roch, believed to protect against the plague. The saint himself contracted the plague in the 1300s and retreated to a hut in the woods, where he was miraculously discovered and nursed back to health.
Tags:
landscapes; vegetation; men; architecture; costume; religion; Christianity Link to share this object record:
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