Federico Barocci
Italian, c. 1535-1612
Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition (recot) Base of Column (verso)
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Federico Barocci
Italian, c. 1535-16121568/69
Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition (recot) Base of Column (verso)
Federico Barocci Italian, c. 1535-1612 →chalkdrawings (visual works)
Date
1568/69
Medium
Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping and traces of white chalk, on tan laid paper, pieced and incised
Dimensions
29.4 × 23.9 cm (11 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
After Raphael, Federico Barocci was the most important painter from Urbino; like Raphael, Barocci prepared for his painted compositions with an elaborate series of drawings. One of thirty-six known studies for his Deposition, painted c. 1568 / 69 for the Chapel of San Bernardino in the Cathedral of Perugia, this is one of three life-sized drawings, or "cartoons," from which he transferred his design to its support.
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