Giorgio Vasari
Italian, 1511–1574
The Conversion of Saint Paul
INV-2449
Giorgio Vasari
Italian, 1511–15741554
The Conversion of Saint Paul
Giorgio Vasari Italian, 1511–1574 →drawings (visual works)brush and wash
Date
1554
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with splatters of gray, green and pink paint over black chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream laid paper, with framing lines in pen and brown ink, laid down on secondary paper
Dimensions
18.2 × 26.7 cm (7 3/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
This lively sketch is a preparatory drawing for one of three 1555 frescoes that Vasari painted for a church ceiling vault in the central Italian town of Cortona. The artist’s line, rapidly applied in pen and ink, belies the careful thought given to the composition, in which Vasari makes utmost use of the scene’s horizontal format.
The paint stains on the drawing’s right side indicate that this was a working drawing used in the painting process.
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