Design of a Candlestick with Winged Figures at Base Surrounding Scenic Medallion 1501–47 Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian Although he received commissions for numerous monumentalfresco cycles throughout his thirty-year career, it was as adesigner of small-scale decorative objects that Perino’s artisticimagination took flight. This lavish design for a bronzecandlestick brimming with ornament is a veritableadvertisement for his prodigious powers of invention. In aseamless synthesis of the sacred and profane that epitomizesthe cultural ethos of Renaissance Rome, classicizingswags, aca
Design of a Candlestick with Winged Figures at Base Surrounding Scenic Medallion 1501–47 Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian Although he received commissions for numerous monumentalfresco cycles throughout his thirty-year career, it was as adesigner of small-scale decorative objects that Perino’s artisticimagination took flight. This lavish design for a bronzecandlestick brimming with ornament is a veritableadvertisement for his prodigious powers of invention. In aseamless synthesis of the sacred and profane that epitomizesthe cultural ethos of Renaissance Rome, classicizingswags, acanthus leaves, and grotteschi frame a medallion—presumably an engraved rock crystal—illustrating anepisode of the Passion. The Christian imagery—both thenarrative scene and the saint standing in a niche at thetop—indicates that the candlestick was intended for an altarrather than a secular domestic context. Nothing about thepatron or the intended setting are known, but according tothe biographer Giorgio Vasari, Cardinal Alessandro Farnesecommissioned Perino to design rock-crystal plaques toornament two altar candlesticks. Conceivably, the presentsheet relates to that project, as do two studies by Perinoin the Museum's Design of a Candlestick with Winged Figures at Base Surrounding Scenic Medallion. Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) (Italian, Florence 1501–1547 Rome). 1501–47. Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash. Drawings
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