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Article: A new Ribera drawing among Michelangelos: a drawing in the Ashmolean Museum long associated with Michelangelo is here attributed by Carmen C. Bambach to Jose de Ribera. One of his rare drawings in red chalk, it can be linked to the artist's well-known interest in grotesque faces.(Critical essay)
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In sifting through the boxes of drawings by Michelangelo and his school at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the present author came across a spirited study in red chalk representing a grotesque, wrinkled man in bust-length profile, with a penetrating gaze, prominently upturned nose and boxy forehead, as well as some moustache and beard stubble (Fig. 1). The drawing is thoroughly unMichelangelesque, despite its splendid provenance--Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Samuel Woodburn were its previous owners--and a venerably long bibliography in Michelangelo studies. (1) It was most recently published in 2007 in the catalogue of the Ashmolean Michelangelos by Paul ...