Saint Charles Borromeo Supervising the Opening of a Crypt
Cesare Nebbia
1600–1609
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 16.2 × 21.3 cm (6 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
brush and washdrawings (visual works)graphitepen and ink drawingsgouacheprints and drawingpaperbrush and inkpaper (fiber product)
About
Federico Zuccaro painted another of the Collegio Borromeo frescos. His inscription on this drawing indicates his ownership of the work, which he presumably acquired from Nebbia directly. Its subject matter relates to Borromeo’s miraculous discovery of a group of holy relics in a crypt. In each of the three Bross drawings relating to the frescos, the saint is identifiable by his characteristically large nose.
