Detail View: The AMICA Library: Study for the Head of the Virgin

AMICA ID: 
AIC_.1922.5406R
AMICA Library Year: 
1998
Object Type: 
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name: 
Barocci, Federico
Creator Name: 
Barocci, Federico
Creator Nationality: 
European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role: 
Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 
Italian; 1526/28-1612 Europe,Italy
Creative Active Place: 
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: 
alternate
Title Type: 
preferred
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
Rights: 
http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html [ 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.
Related Image Identifier Link: 
AIC_.E21156.TIF
Initial Sort: 
Barocci, Federico