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Source Description
The talented second-born son of Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese, Carletto Caliari assisted his father in the final years of the celebrated artist’s life. Successful Venetian painting studios were run as workshops, with staffs of trained apprentices working under a master’s supervision to simultaneously execute a multitude of commissions. Drawings such as this study of expressive hand gestures were used as reference materials to ensure stylistic consistency within the shop.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
111054
label
Studies of Hands (recto)
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
111054
contentType
drawing
title
Studies of Hands (recto)
description
The talented second-born son of Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese, Carletto Caliari assisted his father in the final years of the celebrated artist’s life. Successful Venetian painting studios were run as workshops, with staffs of trained apprentices working under a master’s supervision to simultaneously execute a multitude of commissions. Drawings such as this study of expressive hand gestures were used as reference materials to ensure stylistic consistency within the shop.
date
c. 1586
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60739936
creators
26128
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 27.5 x 17.8 cm (10 13/16 x 7 in.)
cul
Italy, 16th century
accession
1929.549.a
Source extras
tec
charcoal (stumped in places) heightened with white chalk
tombstone
Studies of Hands (recto), c. 1586. Carletto Caliari (Italian, 1570–1596). Charcoal (stumped in places) heightened with white chalk; sheet: 27.5 x 17.8 cm (10 13/16 x 7 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1929.549.a
supportMaterials
description
blue laid paper
collection
DR - Italian
inscriptions
inscription
lower center, in brown ink: di Carlo Caliari / figlio di Paulo Verone.
citations
citation
Francis, Henry. "'The Judgement of Paris,' a Drawing Attributed to Paolo Veronese." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>34, no. 7 (September 1947): 176-177.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 162; Mentioned: p. 177
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 11:27:00.597000
sourceId
111054
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Drawings
coll
DR - Italian
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charcoal (stumped in places) heightened with white chalk
creatorTags
male
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image_url
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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