Completed only in 1556, the fresco cycle depicts scenes from the Passion of Christ, culminating in the Crucifixion, to which the recto of the present drawing is related. The Madonna Litta might be one of the paintings of the Madonna and Child recorded in Leonardos studio before or during his first Milanese period (c.14811483 to 1499).On a drawing in the Uffizi Leonardo noted that he had begun two Virgin Maries in late 1478 and an inventory of his studio written in 1482 (part of the Codex Atlanticus) again mentions two paintings of Our. The important commission was entrusted to the artist by the wealthy Roman patron Jacopo Mattei in 1553. Taddeo’s work in the Mattei Chapel marks a turning point from the first fifty years of the sixteenth century. Las mejores ofertas para Come la bestia e il cacciatore.
A drapery study of a standing figure on the verso instead appears to be connected to a female figure in the background of the Washing of the Feet, a different scene from the same cycle. The recto of this sheet is preparatory for the figure of the Madonna in the Crucified Christ with the Virgin and the Holy Women, situated above the altar in the Mattei Chapel, in the Roman Church of Santa Maria della Consolazione. Poughkeepsie, NY, Vassar College, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. (ed.), Mastery and Elegance, Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. LUCHINAT Cristina Acidini, Taddeo e Federico Zuccaro, Milan: Jandi Sapi Editori, 1998, vol. I, pp. 51, 57, note 28.ĬLARK A.L. GERE J.A., “The Lawrence-Pillipps-Rosenbach Zuccaro Album”, in Master Drawings, vol. VIII, 1970, p. 126. Horvitz Collection of Italian Drawings, January 23, 2008, no. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, The Jeffrey E. Sale, Christie’s, New York, January 10, 1996, no. Professor Richard Krautheimer (1897-1994) and Doctor Trude Krautheimer-Hess (1902-1987) Signed and annotated in Federico Zuccaro’s hand: schizo de mano de Tadeo/…ventoĬollector’s mark “Krautheimer” on the reverse Origin Swooning Virgin Supported by a Holy Woman with Subsidiary Studies of the Virgin’s Head and Hands (recto)īlack chalk on cream antique laid paper (recto)
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