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Federico Barocci

Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition (recot) Base of Column (verso)

1568/69
Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping and traces of white chalk, on tan laid paper, pieced and incised
29.4 × 23.9 cm (11.6 × 9.4 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

After Raphael, Federico Barocci was the most important painter from Urbino; like Raphael, Barocci prepared for his painted compositions with an elaborate series of drawings. One of thirty-six known studies for his Deposition, painted c. 1568 / 69 for the Chapel of San Bernardino in the Cathedral of Perugia, this is one of three life-sized drawings, or "cartoons," from which he transferred his design to its support.

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