Giuseppe Porta
Italian, c. 1520–c. 1575
Bearded Man with his Right Arm Raised
INV-2021
Giuseppe Porta
Italian, c. 1520–c. 15751562/64
Bearded Man with his Right Arm Raised
Giuseppe Porta Italian, c. 1520–c. 1575 →drawings (visual works)paper
Date
1562/64
Medium
Black, red, and ocher chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on bluish gray laid paper
Dimensions
20.6 × 26.3 cm (8 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Between 1562 and 1566, Salviati was in Rome working on a commission for two large frescoes in the Sala Regia, a formal reception hall in the Vatican. This sheet is a single-figure study for the first of these, which depicts the peace treaty that Pope Alexander III and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa reached in Venice in 1177. The corresponding painted figure can be seen in the large crowd at right in the fresco.
An example of the artist’s mature draftsmanship, the drawing demonstrates a range of techniques, from the carefully modeled face and the crumpled pleats of the sleeve to the delicate black chalk of the figure’s beard.
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