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Venetian Workshop Shelf

Palma il Giovane

Jacopo Negretti, called Palma il Giovane or Palma the Younger, was a late Venetian painter and draftsman whose huge workshop-era corpus sits just after Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. This shelf is built for quick study: how many works are documented, what is actually downloadable, and where the drawings live.

Open Media Shelf Documents Source Map Leonardo Works Hub
400+documented paintings and drawings
227catalogued works
102drawings & graphic studies
71paintings & altarpieces

The Short Answer

A clean exact total is not available from one public catalogue. The practical number is 400+ documented works between paintings and drawings, with the caveat that attributions, workshop works, copies, prints after his designs, and church-cycle canvases move around depending on the catalogue.

For this comparative study, the visual archive brings together 227 open-access Wikimedia Commons records. This includes direct category records for drawings, paintings, prints, core autograph media, and works after Palma, enabling scholars to trace Venetian studio practices across international collections.

Why The Drawings Matter

Palma is a useful bridge artist for this site because his sheets preserve the Venetian workshop brain at speed: figure clusters, altarpiece studies, wash drawings, and copy/variant logic. The British Museum's album record is especially important because it describes an album titled Studio di Disegni di Giacomo Palma containing 136 drawings.

The open visual archive below brings together 102 drawing records, establishing an accessible visual corpus for examining Palma's draftsmanship and tracking sheets across European institutions.

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Source Map

400+ documented works

Italian reference page notes that Palma's documented works across paintings and drawings are more than 400. Use this as a quick pointer, not as a final catalogue raisonne.

Commons Drawings

Direct open-media category for drawings, comprising 102 catalogued photographic records.

Commons Paintings

Direct open-media category for paintings. The visible category count and API count may drift by one as Commons changes.

Commons Prints

Print/design lane, including the De Excellentia and Nobilitate Delineationis material.

British Museum Album

Album record for Studio di Disegni di Giacomo Palma, described as containing 136 drawings.

National Gallery of Art

NGA artist page gives a stable name/date anchor and exposes 22 selected works in their collection.

Open Media Manifest JSON

Machine-readable dataset of Palma's catalogued works, including titles, source links, licenses, and collection metadata.

Documents Index JSON

Machine-readable index for Palma's archival references, commission records, and print treatises.