Study for the Figure of Saint Peter, Daniele da Volterra, ca. 1545

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Study for the Figure of Saint Peter, ca. 1545, Black chalk, sheet: 16 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli) (Italian, Volterra 1509–1566 Rome), This sculptural, carefully rendered study of the standing figure of Saint Peter (identified by the keys in his hand at left) is a rare early drawing by Daniele da Volterra, datable to the mid-1540s, when the artist had renounced the relatively provincial vocabulary of his early training in Volterra and Siena in favor of the bold, grand manner of the Roman school, then dominated by the aging Michelangelo and the pupils of Raphael (who had died in 1520

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