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 sketch shows two stick-figure people playing tennis. They swing at balls with long-handled rackets. The lines are simple but show their arms and legs moving fast. The artist drew the bodies like machines—just bones and joints. This was a way to study how people move. Next, look up etching to see how artists carve into metal to make prints.
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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