by Giulio Cesare Procaccini (Italian, 1570-1625).
Beginning his career as a sculptor in Milan, Procaccini’s paintings in the following decades subsequently portrayed his sculptural gifts. His style of tense draftsmanship and deep feeling anticipated the Baroque and brought the Procaccini Academy increasing renown as a source of inspired painting and sculpture, as well as a school for future artists and craftsmen. Upon his death, his nephew Ercole Procaccini the Younger assumed the directorship of the Academy.
