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The Deaths of the Blessed Ugoccione and Sostegno (recto); A Study of the Farnese Hercules (verso)
Creator
Bernardino Poccetti (Barbatelli)Italian Artist · 1548–1612
All works by this person →At a time when Florentine painting was moving away from Mannerism towards a more naturalistic style, Bernardino Poccetti patiently worked his way up to become an eminent decorative fresco painter. The young Poccetti painted grotesques, then facades, and later expertly designed his frescoes to integrate painting, sculpture, and architecture. Warm, vivid pastel colors characterize his frescoes, whil
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- about 1604–1612
- Medium
- Black chalk, brush and brown ink and brown wash heightened with white gouache, squared in red chalk (recto); Pen and brown ink (verso)
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
While two angels flutter overhead, ready to guide their souls into heaven, the bodies of the blessed monks Ugoccione and Sostegno lie in state surrounded by other brethren of the Servite Order. To give the scene a sense of greater depth, Bernardino Poccetti used a rather broad and deep spatial arrangement. The arched ceiling draws the viewer's eye into the setting, while contrasting patches of dark shadow and light keep it moving. A monastery commissioned Poccetti to produce a series of fourteen frescoes with scenes from the lives of the monastery's founders, and he made this elaborate study for one of them. On the verso of the sheet, another artist, possibly Giovanni Navarretti, sketched a study of the Farnese Hercules.
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