Study for a Ceiling Decoration: Coronation of the Virgin (recto); Female Head (verso), attributed to Giacinto Brandi, 1680

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Study for a Ceiling Decoration: Coronation of the Virgin (recto); Female Head (verso), 1680, Red chalk, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on brownish paper (recto); red chalk study of a female head (verso), 18 1/16 x 14 5/8in. ( x ), Drawings, attributed to Giacinto Brandi (Italian, Rome 1621–1691 Rome), Crowded scenes with the apotheosis of saints were a popular subject for ceiling decorations in Roman churches of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The outlines of an architectural ceiling surrounding this powerful large-scale composition drawing, or ‘modello,’ reveal that this design was intended for such a fresco painting

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