Saint Dominic Distributing Rosaries
Primary
Giovanni Battista Paggi
(Genoa, Italy, 1554–1627)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Date1590s
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over black chalk
DimensionsSheet: 11 7/16 × 8 in. (29 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1265
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1265
On View
Not on viewThis is a fine study of Paggi’s maturity, quite automatic but less extravagant in line, with more carefully applied and gradated washes, relative to the style of Cambiaso. Although no corresponding painting has been identified, the auto-graph inscription describes the drawing as preparatory for “an altarpiece in [the patron’s] chapel in Randazzo, Sicily.”
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