A Prophet and a Sibyl
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Federico Zuccaro
(Sant'Angelo in Vado Marches, Italy, 1540–1542–Ancona, Italy, 1609)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Date1573
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over black chalk with white...
DimensionsSheet: 4 × 5 11/16 in. (10.1 × 14.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1447
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1447
On View
Not on viewThe Oratorio del Gonfalone was one of the two most important pictorial projects in Rome during the 1560s and 1570s. Half a dozen of the city’s leading young painters collaborated on a fresco cycle of scenes from the Passion of Christ with elaborate decorative surrounds. Zuccaro was responsible for the Flagellation and above it a prophet and sibyl whose texts prefigure the event. Characteristically confident in its plasticity and elegant in its line, this drawing is one of several preparatory studies for the group.
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