Three Male Nudes (1525–50): Art, History and Details

Three Male Nudes (1525–50) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Domenico Beccafumi (Italian, 1486–1551).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Domenico Beccafumi was a Mannerist painter and sculptor who completed several religious and civic commissions in his home town of Siena. An experimental printmaker, Beccafumi made a chiaroscuro print, mixing engraving and woodcut on the same sheet. This print is a rare impression of the engraved plate alone.

Object facts

• Title: Three Male Nudes
• Date: 1525–50
• Creator attribution: Domenico Beccafumi (Italian, 1486–1551)
• Culture: Italy, Siena
• Type: Print
• Technique: engraving
• Dimensions: Sheet: 21.7 x 41 cm (8 9/16 x 16 1/8 in.); Platemark: 20.8 x 40.5 cm (8 3/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Engraving
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1958.314

Collection credit

Delia E. Holden Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Richards, Louise. "'River Gods' by Domenico Beccafumi." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 2 (February 1959): 24-29.
• DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
• Takahatake, Naoko, et al. The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018.

View the collection record

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