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Sep 17, 2010
Sep 17, 2010

Three Studies of Angels for a Pendentive (recto); Studies for Christ Meeting His Mother on the Road to Calvary, Studies of an Angel in a Pendentive (verso)

Three Studies of Angels for a Pendentive (recto); Studies for Christ Meeting His Mother on the Road to Calvary, Studies of an Angel in a Pendentive (verso)

1599/1604

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Cristoforo Roncalli

(Italian, 1552–1626)

Italy, late 16th-early 17th Century

Red chalk; squared in red chalk (left half), framing lines in red chalk

Sheet: 27.8 x 35.3 cm (10 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1989.45

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Description

In 1590, a generation after Michelangelo’s death, the dome he designed for Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome was finally completed. In 1597 Pope Clement VIII commissioned the mosaic decoration of the interior of the dome, choosing Cristoforo Roncalli in part because of his training in Florence, an origin he shared with Michelangelo. Roncalli made this preparatory drawing for the angels that would appear at each side of the four Evangelists in the trapezoidal spaces where the dome meets the supporting arches, called pendentives. Roncalli practiced rendering the foreshortened human form in three studies across the sheet, which are early stages of the design.

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Collection: 
DR - Italian
Department: 
Drawings
Type of artwork: 
Drawing
Medium: 
Red chalk; squared in red chalk (left half), framing lines in red chalk
Credit line: 
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

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