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Title:Nude Demon Encircled by a Serpent, after Michelangelo's Last Judgment; and Other Figure Studies (recto); Figure Studies (verso)
Artist:Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (Italian, Milan 1548–1608 Milan)
Date:1548–1608
Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, over red chalk (verso)
Dimensions:11 1/16 x 8 7/16in. (28.1 x 21.5cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. David F. Seiferheld, 1961
Accession Number:61.179.2
Inscription: Faint annotation in black chalk at lower border of verso, Ambrogio Figino.
Giuseppe Vallardi (Italian); Carlo Prayer (Italian); David F. Seiferheld (American)
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City. "Michelangelo e la Sistina: la tecnica, il restauro, il mito," March 1990–July 1990.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. "The Genius of the Sculptor in Michelangelo's Work," June 12, 1992–September 13, 1993.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. "Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome," October 2, 2007–January 6, 2008.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," January 9–March 25, 2012.
Philip Pouncey Master Drawings. vol. 6, 1968, p. 253, no. 3.
Edward J. Olszewski, Jane Glaubinger The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. March 6 - April 22, 1979. Cleveland, 1981, cat. no. 46, pp. 8, 11, ill.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, cat. no. 80, fig. no. 80, p. 90, ill.
Annalisa Perissa Torrini Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia. Catalogo dei Disegni antichi. Disegni del Figino. Milan, 1987, under nos. 93 and 103, fig. no. 89- 90, 192, ill.
Fabrizio Mancinelli, Giovanni Morello, Anna Maria De Strobel Michelangelo e la Sistina. La tecnina, il restauro, il mito. Rome, 1990, pp. 239-40, no. 145 (entry by Arnold Nesselrath).
Pietro C. Marani, Pierre Théberge The Genius of the Sculptor in Michelangelo's Work. Exh. cat. Montreal Museum of Art (June 12 - Spetember 13, 1992). Montreal, 1992, pp. 432-33, no. 132 (entry by Annalisa Perissa Torrini).
Fabrizio Mancinelli Il Giudizio Universale. La storia, la tecnica esecutiva, gli interventi di restauro e la censura in La Sistina e Michelangelo. Storia e fortuna di un capolavoro. Exh. cat. Rimini, Castelsismondo (2003-2004). Francesco Buranelli et al., eds., Milan, 2003, pp. 50-51, 55 n. 36, ill.
Julian Brooks Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome. Exh. cat. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007, pp. 82, 92, 129, no. 68 recto.
Domenico Laurenza "Art and anatomy in Renaissance Italy : Images from a Scientific Revolution." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. Vol. 69, no. 3, New York, Winter 2012, pp. 36-39, fig. 53-55.
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