LUINI, Aurelio
(b. ca. 1530, Luino, d. 1593, Milano)

Studies of Trees

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Pen and brown ink, 280 x 188 mm
Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Multiple trees portrayed in realistic detail are seen in this study by the Lombard painter Aurelio Luini, the son of Bernardino Luini. This sheet evidences the continuation of a Leonardesque, descriptive mode of drawing from nature into the last decades of the sixteenth century.