Art Institute of Chicago
Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict
Bartolomeo Cesi
- Date
- 1590
- Medium
- Red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black and red chalk
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This work was modeled on a young studio assistant who appears frequently in Cesi's drawings, but it was preparatory for a painting of a much older Saint Benedict in the church of San Procolo, Bologna. The black chalk grid would have facilitated the artist in the transfer and enlarging of his design.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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