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A design for a bronze door 1525
Pen and ink with wash, over black chalk | 50.0 x 14.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 905492

Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536)
A design for a bronze door 1525
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A design for one leaf of the great west door of Siena Cathedral (unexecuted). Peruzzi was in 1525 paid 250 lire and 5 soldi by the operai of the cathedral 'sonno per le sue fadighe di avere lui fatto piu disegni delle porti s'anno a fare di bronzo e per altri disegni' ['for his work in having made several drawings for the doors that are to be made in bronze, and for other drawings'].
The door is divided into three main rectangular spaces. In the top field is the Death of the Virgin; at the centre, the Visitation. A black chalk sketch in the lowest filed is hard to read but may be the Presentation/Circumcision. Two narrower fields depict Joesph sold to the Ishmaelites, and Joseph and Potiphar's Wife. The framing bands of the upper half of the design are filled with heads, standing figures and scrolling foliage.
See C.L. Frommel, 'Baldassare Peruzzi als Maler und Zeichner', Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, II, 1967-68, Beiheft, p. 139, no. 105a.Provenance
Listed in George III's Inventory A, c.1800, p. 53, in the album 'Perino del Vaga, Bald.re Peruzzi, Nico: del Abatte &c', no. 11, 'Sacred historical Subjects in the compartments of a Ceiling. do. [Bald. Peruzzi]'.
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink with wash, over black chalk
Measurements
50.0 x 14.4 cm (sheet of paper)
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