Art Institute of Chicago
Allegory of the Elevation of Cardinal Deacon Oddone Colonna to the Papal Chair as Pope Martin V
Benedetto Luti
- Date
- 1700
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black and red chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on joined sheets of laid paper, mounted to paperboard
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This large and impressive drawing depicts the election of Oddone Colonna as Pope Martin V in 1417, an event that ended the Western Schism in the Catholic Church, when multiple parties claimed the title of pope. A highly finished study for a painting installed on a ceiling in the Palazzo Colonna in Rome, it depicts Colonna receiving the keys of Saint Peter from a kneeling figure while allegorical figures of Faith, Hope, and Charity, among others, look on. Highly theatrical and emotionally expressive, the drawing epitomizes late Baroque virtuoso design and draftsmanship.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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