Study for Allegorical Figure of Prudence 1501–47 Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian This drawing of a graceful figure in diaphanous, billowing drapery relates to a fresco in the Sala Paolina, the papal reception hall in Castel Sant’Angelo decorated by Perino and his workshop between 1543 and 1548. It is a study for Prudence, one of the female personifications of the Virtues who appear in niches between the monumental renderings of scenes from the life of Alexander the Great. Like the study for Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot in the Museum's collection (), the drawing would
Study for Allegorical Figure of Prudence 1501–47 Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian This drawing of a graceful figure in diaphanous, billowing drapery relates to a fresco in the Sala Paolina, the papal reception hall in Castel Sant’Angelo decorated by Perino and his workshop between 1543 and 1548. It is a study for Prudence, one of the female personifications of the Virtues who appear in niches between the monumental renderings of scenes from the life of Alexander the Great. Like the study for Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot in the Museum's collection (), the drawing would have been used as a model by Perino’s assistants, who were charged with carrying out his Study for Allegorical Figure of Prudence. Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) (Italian, Florence 1501–1547 Rome). 1501–47. Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk. Drawings
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