id: 169319 accession number: 2011.192 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.192 updated: 2023-05-16 11:14:39.080000 Study for the 'Essequie' Conducted in San Lorenzo, Florence, in 1637 in Honour of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, 1637. Alfonso Parigi (Italian, 1606–1656). Pen and brown ink and brown wash with graphite and accents of pink, purple-grey and deep blue-black wash; sheet: 48.5 x 65.8 cm (19 1/8 x 25 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2011.192 title: Study for the 'Essequie' Conducted in San Lorenzo, Florence, in 1637 in Honour of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1637 creation date earliest: 1637 creation date latest: 1637 current location: creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Florence, 17th century technique: pen and brown ink and brown wash with graphite and accents of pink, purple-grey and deep blue-black wash department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Alfonso Parigi (Italian, 1606–1656) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 48.5 x 65.8 cm (19 1/8 x 25 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft opening date: 2015-02-15T00:00:00 The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 15-June 14, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art (2/15/2015 - 6/14/2015); "The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft" --- PROVENANCE Sotheby's, London early 1990s; Rick Scorza date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Alfonso Parigi was the official court architect for the Medici, taking over after the death of his father, the great engineer, architect, and designer Giulio Parigi. Testifying to the Medici's interest in cultivating a culture of the macabre, this sheet is an elaborate study for the essequie (funerary rites) for the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. Skulls and skeletons comingle with angels and garlands, and black draperies would have been hung to transform the church into a strange, macabre world. The Medici also commissioned artists and designers to create apparati, theatrical stage settings that were similarly elaborate, hell-like scenes. Designed only three years before the young Rosa would come to the court, this haunting sheet displays the grotesque artistic fantasia that was in vogue in Florence when Rosa arrived. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.192/2011.192_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.192/2011.192_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.192/2011.192_full.tif