Pietro da Cortona
Italian, 1596-1669
The Holy Trinity with Saint Michael Conquering the Dragon
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Pietro da Cortona
Italian, 1596-16691666
The Holy Trinity with Saint Michael Conquering the Dragon
Pietro da Cortona Italian, 1596-1669 →pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)
Date
1666
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with lead white (discolored) and black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid card
Dimensions
45.8 × 35.7 cm (18 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Margaret Day Blake Collection
Pietro da Cortona was active in Rome as an architect, painter, and decorator. This majestic sheet reflects his virtuosity in all these fields, approximating High Baroque ceiling frescoes in its play of light and active, sculptural forms. It probably served as a model for a painting once in the Vatican but now lost.
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