Art Institute of Chicago

Stigmatization of Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti

Date

1750/1760

Medium

Pen and gray ink, and gray wash with black chalk, on white laid paper

Culture

Italy

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

Ferretti was the most outstanding painter of Florence during the first half of the eighteenth century. Educated there and in Bologna, he became one of the most prolific fresco painters in Tuscany. This study for the church of Santa Maria Maddelena de'Pazzi, with its fluid strokes and subtle washes that evoke convincingly plastic angelic forms, reveals Ferretti's place in the tradition of great Florentine draftsmen.

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