Federico Barocci / Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition / 1568-1569

Federico Barocci
Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition
1568-1569
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Creator Name: Barocci, Federico
Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: Italian; 1526/28-1612 Europe,Italy
Creator Active Place: Europe,Italy
Creator Name-CRT: Federico Barocci
Title: Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition
Title Type: preferred
Title: Study for the Head of the Virgin
Title Type: alternate
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1568
Creation End Date: 1569
Creation Date: 1568-1569
Creation Place: Europe,Italy
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Materials and Techniques: Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping, and with traces of white chalk, on tan laid paper, pieced and incised.Verso: Black chalk
Dimensions: Height: 294 mm., Width: 239 mm.
AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 1922.5406R
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html
Context: exhib. label:Head of the Virgin1568/1569Black and white chalks with stumping on cream paper,incised and piecedLeonora Hall Gurley Memorial CollectionAfter Raphael, Federico Barocci was the most imortant painter from Urbino; like Raphael, Barocci preparedfor his painted compositions with an elaborate series of drawings. One of thirty-six known studies for his Deposition, painted c. 1568/69 for the Chapel of San Bernardino in the Cathedral of Perugia, this is one of three life-sized drawings, or 'cartoons,' from which he transferred his design to its support.
AMICA ID: AIC_.1922.5406R
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998

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