The Holy Trinity with Saint Michael Conquering the Dragon
Pietro da Cortona
1656–1669
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with lead white (discolored) and black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid card
- Dimensions
- 45.8 × 35.7 cm (18 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk sticksinkpen and ink drawingswashopaque white pigmentwhite pigmentprints and drawinginorganic materialcolorantlead whitecoating (material)pigmentpaper (fiber product)
About
Pietro da Cortona was active in Rome as an architect, painter, and decorator. This majestic sheet reflects his virtuosity in all these fields, approximating High Baroque ceiling frescoes in its play of light and active, sculptural forms. It probably served as a model for a painting once in the Vatican but now lost.
