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Luca Penni

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Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1936–1937

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Luca Penni (c.1500/1504–1556) was an Italian painter of the 16th century, best known for his work in France as part of the First School of Fontainebleau. He was nicknamed Le Romain.

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Artworks (8)

The Calumny of Apelles

1560 · engraving

Platemark: 36.9 x 31.9 cm (14 1/2 x 12 9/16 in.); Sheet: 37.3 x 32.3 cm (14 11/16 x 12 11/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Christ in Limbo

1542 · Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with brush and white gouache, on paper prepared with pale brown wash; outlines incised for transfer

Sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 5/8 in. (36.8 × 27 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Lamentation

1540 · Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on buff laid paper, squared in graphite, laid down on ivory laid paper

28.9 × 24.2 cm (11 7/16 × 9 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Judgment of Paris

1540 · etching

Sheet: 30.7 x 41.7 cm (12 1/16 x 16 7/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Adoration of the Magi

1540 · etching

Sheet: 31.2 x 42.3 cm (12 5/16 x 16 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 32 x 43.1 cm (12 5/8 x 16 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist

1540 · Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper; later additions of brown ink

17 × 13.4 cm (6 3/4 × 5 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Temptation of Eve

1535 · etching

Sheet: 42.7 x 58.4 cm (16 13/16 x 23 in.); Secondary Support: 48.9 x 69.5 cm (19 1/4 x 27 3/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Battle before Troy

1520 · Pen and brown ink, and brush and blue and gray wash, on cream laid paper

29.1 × 42.5 cm (11 1/2 × 16 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Group Exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

New York · 1936