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The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel 1512-35
Pen and ink and brown wash; watermark of anchor in circle with star. | 26.4 x 36.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 970112
After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-Rome 1564)
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel 1512-35
After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-Rome 1564)
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel 1512-35
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A drawing of a portion of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the end opposite the altar. The drawing is one of a set of four (RCIN 991368-991370, 970112) copying Michelangelo’s frescoes in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican: see 991368 for a fuller discussion.
On the verso, the pen inscription ‘Di Polidoro doppo Michelangelo Buonarota’. The attribution to Polidoro da Caravaggio is incorrect.Provenance
Probably among the drawings listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800, p. 46, ‘Mich: Angelo Buonaroti’, Vol. 2, ‘36 to 53. Copy's of Mich: Angelo's Sketches for the Ceiling of the Sixtine Chapel.’
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink and brown wash; watermark of anchor in circle with star.
Measurements
26.4 x 36.8 cm (sheet of paper)
