A Bearded Prophet in Glory Attended by a Bishop, Two Other Male Saints, and Angels (Design for a Section of a Dome), 1634–35, Black chalk, partly reworked by the artist in pen and brown ink, maximum sheet: 11 1/2 x 10 5/16 in. (29.2 x 26.2 cm), very irregular borders, Drawings, Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian, Parma 1582–1647 Rome), Rapidly drawn on a page taken from a sketchbook, this dynamic, highly utilitarian working drawing portrays a figural scene of religious glory, conceived in a perspective 'as if seen from below' and within the outlines framing a tall, pointed, curving area between two ribs of a dome
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Bearded Prophet, Glory Attended, Bishop, Two, Male Saints, Angels, Design, Section, Dome, 1634–35, Black chalk, partly reworked, artist, pen, brown ink, maximum sheet, 11 1/2 x 10 5/16, 29.2 26.2 cm, irregular borders, Drawings, Giovanni Lanfranco, Italian, Parma, 1582–1647, Rome, Rapidly drawn, page, sketchbook, dynamic, highly utilitarian, working, drawing, portrays, figural scene, religious glory, conceived, perspective, if, within, outlines framing, tall, pointed, curving area, two ribs, dome
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