Angel Musicians (recto); Head Studies (verso)

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Angel Musicians (recto); Head Studies (verso)

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Morazzone (Pier Francesco Mazzuchelli)

Italian Artist · 1573–1625

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Morazzone's father, a master mason, took him to Rome in 1592, where he painted frescoes in several churches. He also may have worked for a Mannerist painter and studied in academies or with Francesco Vanni's brother. By 1598 Morazzone had returned to Lombardy, where he became one of the region's principal painters. His Roman training contributed to his classical style, and the pietist and mystical

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Date
about 1598–1599
Medium
Brush and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor (recto); black chalk (verso), on blue paper (now slightly discolored)
Culture
Italian
Department
Drawings
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
02134a18-b9f7-455c-ae72-034c6f8abf68

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Two angels play a cello and a lute, while a third listens attentively in the background. Morazzone first drew the design in black chalk, then went over the figures with a brown wash to flesh out the forms. Finally he added a fine network of parallel hatching and cross-hatching in white bodycolor to define such delicate details as the feathered wings, flowing drapery, and shining hair of each angel. The blue of the paper, particularly favored by Venetian artists during this time, adds a fourth tone to the scene. Morazzone produced the drawing in preparation for a ceiling fresco, completed in 1599, showing music-making angels in the vault of a rosary chapel in Lombardy. The basic architectural frame is similar in the drawing and the fresco.

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