id:			154880
accession number:	1989.45
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.45
updated:		2023-08-23 23:06:39.104000

Three Studies of  Angels for a Pendentive (recto); Studies for Christ Meeting His Mother on the Road to Calvary, Studies of an Angel in a Pendentive (verso), 1599/1604. Cristoforo Roncalli (Italian, 1552–1626). Red chalk; squared in red chalk (left half), framing lines in red chalk; sheet: 27.8 x 35.3 cm (10 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1989.45

title:				Three Studies of  Angels for a Pendentive (recto); Studies for Christ Meeting His Mother on the Road to Calvary, Studies of an Angel in a Pendentive (verso)
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creation date:			1599/1604
creation date earliest:		1599
creation date latest:		1604
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Italy, late 16th-early 17th Century
technique:	red chalk; squared in red chalk (left half), framing lines in red chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Cristoforo Roncalli (Italian, 1552–1626)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 27.8 x 35.3 cm (10 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
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	inscription:	verso: lower right, in brown ink: N°. 110.c.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1989
	opening date:   1990-02-06T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1989</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).

	title:		Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650
	opening date:   1991-08-27T04:00:00
	<i>Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

	title:		Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance
	opening date:   2019-10-13T04:00:00
	<i>Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Capitaine Carlo Prayer, Milan (Lugt 2044, lower center, in red ink). Juan and Felix Bernasconi, Milan (see photo of collector's signature from sales catalogue, Christie's, London, 6-7 July 1987, no. 71). [W. M. Brady & Co., NY]
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In 1590, a generation after Michelangelo’s death, the dome he designed for Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome was finally completed. In 1597 Pope Clement VIII commissioned the mosaic decoration of the interior of the dome, choosing Cristoforo Roncalli in part because of his training in Florence, an origin he shared with Michelangelo. Roncalli made this preparatory drawing for the angels that would appear at each side of the four Evangelists in the trapezoidal spaces where the dome meets the supporting arches, called pendentives. Roncalli practiced rendering the foreshortened human form in three studies across the sheet, which are early stages of the design.

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