A Wind God, 1669, Black chalk, highlighted with white, on brownish paper, 7 7/16 x 13 1/8in. (18.9 x 33.3cm), Drawings, Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596–1669 Rome), This study of a youth after life served for the figure of a wind god, appearing at the edge of the central oval of the frescoed ceiling in the 'Sala di Apollo' (Palazzo Pitti, Florence). In 1641, the Baroque master Pietro da Cortona undertook the decoration of the state rooms of the Palazzo Pitti, using an iconographic program that dedicated each room to a planet symbolic of the virtues required of a prince, from youth through old age
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