Figure Studies: Standing and Kneeling Clerics and Religious, Adam and Eve, and a Reclining Skeleton, Francesco Vanni, ca. 1602

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Figure Studies: Standing and Kneeling Clerics and Religious, Adam and Eve, and a Reclining Skeleton, ca. 1602, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk, 8 3/16 x 11 5/16in. ( x ), Drawings, Francesco Vanni (Italian, Siena 1563–1610 Siena), Studies for the figures of Saint Francis, Saint Dominic, Saint Louis of Toulouse, and Saint Margaret of Cortona who stand or kneel before the Tree of Life in an allegorical representation of the Immaculate Conception, a painting by Vanni in Saint Margherita, Cortona, which is datable 1602 or shortly thereafter

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