Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)

LOUIS A. WALDMAN: A Drawing by Tribolo for Montorsoli's Lost Hercules and Antaeus at Castello

5 NICCOLÔ TRIBOLO, STUDIES FOR VILLA CASTELLO DECORATION, PARIS. LOUVRE loops with which he summarized the particulars of physiognomy. Given the stylistic parallels between the Budapest drawing and Tribolo's drawings for Medicean commissions of the late 1530s, it seems extremely likely that Budapest sketch was made around the same time and for a similar function. Alongside these specific similarities of graphic language, we can add a more sweep­ing parallel between the newly discovered Budapest sketch and Tribolo's design for the statue of Giovanni delle Bande Nere in the Louvre. In both these images of heroic com­bat, Tribolo laid down his thick strokes of the pen with such turbulent agitation and con­fident briskness that the very marks of his pen seem to evoke the violent, dramatic move­ment he portrays. Tribolo's use of broad areas of hatching to model the figures with light

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