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Studies for an Angel in Glory

1595–1633
Not on view
Made in preparation for a flying angel on the frescoed ceiling in the church of Sant’Antonio Abate, Milan, this drawing explores the dynamic pose of a male figure seen from below. At the sides of the main study, the artist has repeated elements of the body to increase his understanding of the model’s anatomy and his complex, floating pose. A brilliantly original Baroque master from Northern Italy, Tanzio da Varallo was also a skilled draftsman, as can be appreciated by the luminous quality of this drawing, executed over an ocher-prepared ground.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Studies for an Angel in Glory
  • Artist: Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo) (Italian, Riale d'Alagna 1575/80–1632/33 Novara)
  • Date: 1595–1633
  • Medium: Red chalk on off-white laid paper washed pale ochre; main study squared for transfer
  • Dimensions: 14 x 9 15/16in. (35.6 x 25.2cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Gifts of Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, Mrs. Francis Ormond, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, William Benton, Donald Silve, William M. Ivins Jr., and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and other gifts, bequests, and funds, by exchange, 1998
  • Object Number: 1998.185
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Head of a Man, Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo) Italian, Red chalk
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Landscape with Mountains, Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo) Italian, Red chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on pink prepared paper
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Priest with Upraised Arms Wearing a Two-Horned Tiara, Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo) Italian, Red chalk on red-washed paper
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Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo)
1575–1633
Lucretia, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) Italian, Pen and brown ink over black chalk, partially incised with a stylus (recto); rubbed with black chalk for transfer (verso)
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Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), Michelangelo Buonarroti Italian, Red chalk, with small accents of white chalk on the left shoulder of the figure in the main study (recto); soft black chalk, or less probably charcoal (verso)
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
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