Bust of a Woman with an Elaborate Coiffure, Rosso Fiorentino, ca. 1530

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Bust of a Woman with an Elaborate Coiffure, ca. 1530, Black chalk; some contours reinforced in pen and brown ink, and background tinted in brown wash (by another hand), 9 5/16 x 6 15/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, Florence 1494–1540 Fontainebleau), Rosso intended this drawing as an ideal representation of a beautiful young woman, in response to the genre of 'teste divine' (divine heads) that Michelangelo made famous in drawings of the 1520s and 1530s, especially the 'Zenobia' (Uffizi, Florence

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