Stigmatization of Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi
Giovanni Domenico Ferretti
1750–1760
- Medium
- Pen and gray ink, and gray wash with black chalk, on white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27.3 × 21.4 cm (10 3/4 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- Pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkinkpen and ink drawingsgray washwashprints and drawingcolored inkinorganic materialcoating (material)paper (fiber product)gray ink
About
Ferretti was the most outstanding painter of Florence during the first half of the eighteenth century. Educated there and in Bologna, he became one of the most prolific fresco painters in Tuscany. This study for the church of Santa Maria Maddelena de'Pazzi, with its fluid strokes and subtle washes that evoke convincingly plastic angelic forms, reveals Ferretti's place in the tradition of great Florentine draftsmen.
