The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, about 1500, Pen and light and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk underdrawing., 6 15/16 x 5 9/16 in. (17.7 x 14.2 cm), Drawings, Attributed to Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) (Italian, Florence 1466?–1524 Florence), The very finely pricked holes on the outlines of this drawing suggest that it may have served as a design for embroidery, perhaps for the cape of a chasuble (liturgical vestment) or an altar frontal. The drawing style resembles the work of the Florentine artist Raffaelino del Garbo, who, according to the sixteenth-century biographer and artist Giorgio Vasari, made designs for embroidery: “[Raffaelino] was employed by certain nuns and other persons, who were embroidering a great quantity of church vestments and hangings at the time, to make designs in chiaroscuro and ornamental borders containing saints and stories, for ridiculous prices
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Virgin, Saint John, Evangelist, 1500, Pen, light, dark brown ink, brush, brown wash, heightened, white, black chalk underdrawing, 6 15/16 x 5 9/16, 17.7 14.2 cm, Drawings, Attributed to Raffaellino del Garbo, also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Carli, Italian, Florence, 1466?–1524, finely pricked holes, outlines, drawing suggest, served, design, embroidery, perhaps, cape, chasuble, liturgical vestment, altar frontal, style, resembles, work, Florentine artist, Raffaelino, del, Garbo, according, sixteenth-century biographer, artist Giorgio, Vasari, designs, employed, certain nuns, persons, embroidering, great quantity, church vestments, hangings, time, chiaroscuro, ornamental borders, containing, saints, stories, ridiculous prices
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