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accession number:	1989.45.a
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Three Studies of  Angels for a Pendentive (recto), 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.a

title:				Three Studies of  Angels for a Pendentive (recto)
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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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	description:	beige(1) laid paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, Concept, Dogma, and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650 (Aug. 27-Oct. 20, 1991).<br>CMA, "The Year in Review: Selections 1989" (Feb. 6-Apr. 15, 1990), cma Bulletin 77 (1990), p. 76 no. 178.<br> <br>[did not find a department notebook file for this one, Mar. 1996 (though did find it in the card file)]

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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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