COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1922.5406R
AMICA Library Year:
1998
Object Type:
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name:
Barocci, Federico
Creator Nationality:
European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Dates/Places:
Italian; 1526/28-1612 Europe,Italy
Creator Name-CRT:
Federico Barocci
Title:
Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition
Title:
Study for the Head of the Virgin
Title Type:
preferred
Title Type:
alternate
View:
full view
Creation Date:
1568-1569
Creation Start Date:
1568
Creation End Date:
1569
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
Creation Place:
Europe,Italy
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
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.
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E21156.TIF
Study for the Head of the Virgin
