Hanged men, and studies of a woman and a child Masters of design (SEB contracted)
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- Synopsis
- This is an image of a drawing by Pisanello (1434-1438) it is pen and brown ink, over leadpoint on paper. It is 28.3 cm high by 19.3 cm wide. The hanged men drawing is connected to a background detail in the fresco, ‘St George and the Princess’, painted around 1434 to 1438 in the Pellegrini chapel in SanAnastasia, Verona. The drawing consists of 8 individual sketches that make use of most of the available space on the paper. At the top of the page is a row of 4 men each hanging from a gibbet with part of the rope around their necks clearly depicted. In the middle of the page, towards the left-hand side, are 2 further sketches of hanged men with part of the rope around their neck shown. At the bottom of the page, under the feet of the 2 hanged men, is a head and shoulders drawing of a child looking directly at the viewer. The tactile image shows just one of the hanged men - the side view of the hanged man in the middle of the page and shows the shape of the body. The man is approximately twice the size of that in the original drawing. A texture shows the tunic with lines showing some of its folds. A thick broken line shows the rope and the cord tying the hands behind the body. Thin lines on the legs show how the bones are showing through the decaying flesh.
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Publisher:
- RNIB
- Date of Addition:
- 05/11/17
- Copyrighted By:
- British Museum
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Art and Architecture
- Submitted By:
- Caroline Walker
- Proofread By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.