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Baccio Bandinelli

Early Design for the Tomb of Pope Clement VII, ca. 1534-1536

Description

Maker

Title

Early Design for the Tomb of Pope Clement VII

Year

ca. 1534-1536

Medium

Pen and ink with traces of stylus

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

Image: 35.4 x 21.4 cm (13 15/16 x 8 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in pen and ink in an old hand below image: "Tomb of a Pope"; and "Baccio Bandinelli"

Numbered in pen and ink UR: "114"

Stamped with collector's mark of Peter Lely (1618-1680; Lugt 2092) and John Talman (1677-1726; Lugt 2462)

Verso: inscribed in graphite: "Gabbio [?] Coll."

Watermark: anchor in a circle (similar to Briquet no. 471; 44mm)

Type

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

51.507

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Design and Description

January 27 - April 9, 2006

Baccio Bandinelli was a Florentine sculptor. His distinctive style of draftsmanship consisted of intricately interwoven hatch marks that emphasize three-dimensionality. This drawing is the artist’s first modello for the tomb of Pope Clement VII, which Bandinelli would later complete in sculptural form at the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. The final version abandoned this design altogether: the somewhat unusual rendering of the human soul (here represented in innocent nudity at the composition’s center) was replaced with a more traditional triumphal arch motif.

This drawing bears the elaborate gilt mount of 18th-century English collector John Talman.

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