1624
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
From "Bizzarie di varie Figure" is a 1624 ink by Giovanni Battista Bracelli, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows strange, jointed figures made of thin sticks. They bend and twist in odd poses. Some hold weird objects like spoons or keys. The artist, Bracelli, loved playing with scale and impossible shapes. He cut these figures into metal plates, then printed them on paper. That’s how etching works—ink gets pushed into the grooves he carved. Try looking up Bracelli, Giovanni Battista next.
Giovanni Battista Bracelli or Braccelli is the name of more than one engraver and painter active in central Italy in the Baroque period, between about 1616 and 1649.
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