CAMPAGNOLA, Domenico
(b. 1500, Venezia, d. 1564, Padova)

Mountainous Landscape with Antique Ruins

1531-33
Drawing
Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest

In the early 1530s Domenico Campagnola started to make drawings - mostly of panoramic landscapes - to be sold as autonomous works of art, mounted and framed under glass. This revolutionary step endowed drawing with a new character. This rupture of the umbilical cord that tied drawing to painting was a substantially Venetian achievement.