Study for the Angels of Justice
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Jacopo Zanguidi Bertoia
(Parma, Italy, 1544–1574)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Date1572
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 5 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (14 × 9.5 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.912
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.912
On View
Not on viewThe leading painter at Parma in the third quarter of the sixteenth century, Bertoia continued to elaborate upon Parmigianino’s deliberately artificial and extraordinarily beautiful style. The so-called Angels of Justice is one of a series of apocalyptic scenes that Bertoia frescoed in the Farnese palace at Caprarola. Typical in its delicate calligraphy, this drawing was an early idea for the upper part of the composition.
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