Allegory 1532 - 1577

drawing, print

drawing

toned paper

ink painting

print

possibly oil pastel

fluid art

ink drawing experimentation

coffee painting

underpainting

watercolour bleed

watercolour illustration

male-nude

watercolor

"Allegory," a pen and red chalk drawing by Italian artist Orazio Samacchini, is a study for a larger composition. The drawing depicts several nude figures, likely mythological, posed dynamically in a swirling cloud-like space, some seemingly in mid-air, reminiscent of the style of the Renaissance period. The drawing is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.