Seated Youth Wearing a Monk's Habit: Study for Saint Benedict
Bartolomeo Cesi
1590
- Medium
- Red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on blue laid paper, squared in black and red chalk
- Dimensions
- 35.2 × 21.4 cm (13 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
squaring (transferring technique)drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk stickswhite chalkprints and drawinginorganic materialpaper (fiber product)red chalk
About
This work was modeled on a young studio assistant who appears frequently in Cesi's drawings, but it was preparatory for a painting of a much older Saint Benedict in the church of San Procolo, Bologna. The black chalk grid would have facilitated the artist in the transfer and enlarging of his design.
