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Angels Bearing the Column of the Passion
Creator
Friedrich SustrisDutch Artist · 1540–1599
All works by this person →Friedrich Sustris's heritage was Dutch, but he never saw the Netherlands. He probably trained with his father, Lambert Sustris, who assisted in Titian's Venetian workshop. After visiting Rome in 1560, Sustris lived in Florence from 1563 to 1567, assisting Giorgio Vasari and joining the Accademia del Disegno. From Vasari Sustris inherited a palette of pale, broken colors. Sustris built his artistic
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- about 1580–1590
- Medium
- Pen and dark brown ink and gray wash
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Three winged angels carry a Corinthian column through the clouds. Symbolizing one of the instruments of Christ's Passion, the column represents the pillar against which Christ was flogged. Friedrich Sustris produced this drawing in preparation for a series of twenty-five etched glass panels that formed the door of a reliquary shrine in the royal chapel of the Munich Residenz. Six of the panels, including this one, show angels with symbols of the Passion. Sustris's drawing style gave clues to aid the craftsman who transformed this image into an etched panel. The dark outlines of the angels and the column would have been carved more deeply into the glass than the lightly drawn edges of the clouds.
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