Youth with Right Arm Raised in a Shoulder-Length Portrayal (preparatory study for St. Sebastian)
First attributed to Timoteo Viti by Philip Pouncey in 1966, this drawing constitutes a preparatory study for the figure of St. Sebastian, seen at right on the altapiece with The Annunciation with Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian painted by Timoteo Viti around 1513-1515 for the Bonaventura chapel in the church of San Bernardino in Urbino, and now in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan (Reg. Cron. 507). A further large-scale model for the whole composition is in the Corsini collection at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome.
(Furio Rinaldi, 2014)
(Furio Rinaldi, 2014)
Artwork Details
- Title: Youth with Right Arm Raised in a Shoulder-Length Portrayal (preparatory study for St. Sebastian)
- Artist: Timoteo Viti (Italian, Urbino 1469–1523 Urbino)
- Date: ca. 1515
- Medium: Soft black chalk, or charcoal, on paper now very darkened (to beige color)
- Dimensions: 7 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. (19.7 x 13.7 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1966
- Object Number: 66.53.5
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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