The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, Attributed to Raffaellino del Garbo, about 1500
The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, about 1500, Pen and light and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk underdrawing., 6 15/16 x 5 9/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Attributed to Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) (Italian, Florence 1466?–1524 Florence), The very finely pricked holes on the outlines of this drawing suggest that it may have served as a design for embroidery, perhaps for the cape of a chasuble (liturgical vestment) or an altar frontal. The drawing style resembles the work of the Florentine artist Raffaelino del Garbo, who, according to the sixteenth-century biographer and artist Giorgio Vasari, made designs for embroidery: “Raffaelino was employed by certain nuns and other persons, who were embroidering a great quantity of church vestments and hangings at the time, to make designs in chiaroscuro and ornamental borders containing saints and stories, for ridiculous prices
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