Madonna and Child in Glory with Saints Bartholomew and Anthony Abbot
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Giacomo Cavedone
(Sassuolo, Italy, 1577–Bologna, Italy, 1660)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Date1657
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash and white oil pigment on brown prepa
DimensionsSheet: 15 7/16 × 10 5/16 in. (39.2 × 26.2 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1031
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1031
On View
Not on viewThis oil sketch has been newly recognized as a study for the altarpiece of 1657 at Bondanello di Castelmaggiore (Bologna), itself first published in 1990. Trained by Lodovico Carracci and then drawn toward Venetian art, Cavedone was a leading painter in Bologna through the 1620s. Following personal misfortunes that began with the plague of 1630, his work slowed and, tradition has it, the interest of his work declined precipitously. The Bondanello altarpiece and now this drawing reveal a style by then out of fashion but all the more admirable in its vigor and dignity.
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