Head of a Bearded Saint (recto); Study for an Altarpiece with Madonna and Saints (verso), c. 1520-1522
Giovanni Antonio Soglianiexpand_more
Black chalk with white highlights on light brown tinted paperexpand_more
The Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fundexpand_more 2010.15
Not on Viewexpand_more
The Florentine Renaissance artist Giovanni Antonio Sogliani prepared his paintings through long and careful planning, as this drawing shows. On one side (the verso) is the general composition for a Sacra Conversazione (Madonna and child surrounded by saints), whose details are elaborated on the other side and in many other, now lost, drawings. The head of the second saint standing to the right of the Virgin is shown on the recto of this sheet in dazzled adoration, with lips slightly parted as in prayer. His intense devotion may reflect the painter’s famously pious character.
Details
- Title
- Head of a Bearded Saint (recto); Study for an Altarpiece with Madonna and Saints (verso)
- Artist Life
- (Florence), 1492–1544
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2010.15
- Provenance
- Prof. J. Q. Regteren Altena, Amsterdam (d. 1980); by descent to his heirs, sale, Sotheby's, London, July 11, 2001, no. 5; Private collection; Sale, Sotheby's, New York, January 27, 2010, no. 14, to Mia
- Curator Approved
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