Federico Barocci / Christ Child: Study for the Madonna di San Giovanni / c. 1565

Federico Barocci
Christ Child: Study for the Madonna di San Giovanni
c. 1565
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Creator Name: Barocci, Federico
Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: Italian; 1526/28-1612 Europe,Italy
Creator Active Place: Europe,Italy
Creator Name-CRT: Federico Barocci
Title: Christ Child: Study for the Madonna di San Giovanni
Title Type: preferred
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Creation Start Date: 1565
Creation End Date: 1565
Creation Date: c. 1565
Creation Place: Europe,Italy
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Materials and Techniques: Black and red chalk, with pastel and stumping, on greenish-blue laid paper
Dimensions: 401 x 263 mm.
AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 1990.512.1
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html
Context: exhib. label:Christ Child: study for the Madonna di San Giovanni1565/67Black, red, white, and colored chalks on gray-green laid paperLeonora Hall Gurley Memorial CollectionThis magnificent chalk study-a notable predecessor of the art of pastel-has recently been discovered in Art Institute storage and identified as one of the earliest and most significant studies in the medium by the artist who made such studies famous. Federico Barocci used this sheet as a life-size study for the altar of the Madonna diSan Giovanni in the church of that name in Urbino, which he worked on from 1565 to 1567, following his return from study in Rome.
AMICA ID: AIC_.1990.512.1
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998

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