Head of a Bearded Saint (recto); Study for an Altarpiece with Madonna and Saints (verso)

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Head of a Bearded Saint (recto); Study for an Altarpiece with Madonna and Saints (verso)

Giovanni Antonio SoglianiLinkedCulture matchlcp-a548d3a1f012

Date
c. 1520–22
Medium
Black chalk with white highlights on light brown tinted paper
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
109103

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The Florentine Renaissance artist Giovanni Antonio Sogliani prepared his paintings through long and careful planning, as this drawing shows. On one side (the verso) is the general composition for a Sacra Conversazione (Madonna and child surrounded by saints), whose details are elaborated on the other side and in many other, now lost, drawings. The head of the second saint standing to the right of the Virgin is shown on the recto of this sheet in dazzled adoration, with lips slightly parted as in prayer. His intense devotion may reflect the painter’s famously pious character. Italy, Europe

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The Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fund

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