The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia (Cartoon for a Fresco), 1612–14, Charcoal highlighted with white chalk on fourteen sheets of blue laid paper, two of the sheets cut from elsewhere on the original cartoon and reset at the left and right margins to make up the oval, Irregular oval: 67 13/16 × 59 9/16 in. (172.2 × 151.3 cm), Drawings, Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (Italian, Bologna 1581–1641 Naples), This monumental, exquisitely rendered composition is among the most significant extant cartoons (full-scale drawings) by Domenichino. It was a preparatory design for the central portion of his fresco of the Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia, painted on the left wall of the Polet chapel at San Luigi dei Francesi, the French church of Rome
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Martyrdom, Saint Cecilia, Cartoon, Fresco, 1612–14, Charcoal highlighted, white chalk, fourteen sheets, blue laid paper, two, sheets cut, elsewhere, original cartoon, reset, left, right margins, up, oval, Irregular oval, 67 13/16, 59 9/16, 172.2, 151.3 cm, Drawings, Domenichino, Domenico Zampieri, Italian, Bologna, 1581–1641, Naples, monumental, exquisitely rendered, composition, significant extant, cartoons, full-scale drawings, preparatory design, central portion, fresco, painted, left wall, Polet chapel, San Luigi, dei, Francesi, French church, Rome
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