Design for the Tomb of Gregory XIII in Saint Peter's

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Design for the Tomb of Gregory XIII in Saint Peter's

1714

Camillo Rusconi (Italian, 1658–1728)

Rusconi moved to Rome from Milan in 1686 and during the first third of the eighteenth century received some of the most important sculptural commissions to be had in his adopted city. This sheet is a study for an eighteenth-century replacement for the late-sixteenth-century tomb in Saint Peter's of Pope Gregory XIII. It shows the artist's changes of mind as he reworked the design, using pasted-on overlays of pieces of paper to alter the figures at right.

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Object Details

Title:

Design for the Tomb of Gregory XIII in Saint Peter's
verso: Section Drawings of the Base of the Tomb

Date:

1714

Artist:

Camillo Rusconi (Italian, 1658–1728)

Medium:

Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper; figure at right and adjacent putti on adhered laid paper overlays

Dimensions:

Sheet: 20 9/16 x 15 11/16 inches (52.2 x 39.8 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Bequest of Anthony Morris Clark, 1978

Accession Number:

1978-70-400

Geography:

Made in Rome, Italy, Europe

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