Virtue Crowned by Honor, 1670–76, Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper, 5 7/8 x 5 1

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Virtue Crowned by Honor, 1670–76, Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper, 5 7/8 x 5 1/4in. ( x ), Drawings, Carlo Maratti (Italian, Camerano 1625–1713 Rome), During the pontificate of Clement X Altieri (r. 1670–76), his family palace on the Piazza del Gesù in Rome was enlarged and redecorated. Carlo Maratti, a gifted draftsman and the leading baroque painter in Rome, was commissioned to paint the main room between 1674 and 1677, but only the fresco that fills the long, narrow central section of the vault of Palazzo Altieri was executed

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