This publication is a reproduction of a book of drawings in pencil, watercolor and oil pastel from Renaissance painting sources that was completed by Jill Scipione in 2013.
The original size of the sketchbook is 16.5” high by 11.5” wide.
Scipione's work concerns corporeality, exploring themes of body and soul, memory and justice. She works from a variety of source material including sacred art, marine life and undersea videos, butcher charts and text books, Scipione began working from museum biology and anthropology collections at the Smithsonian and other museums in the mid-90s, incorporating the imagery into her artwork. In 2007, she began an ongoing drawing study of human skulls of historic peoples from global, anthropological museum collections. Her most recent series of works springs from the forms in this book, with Renaissance paintings as their source.
