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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
In 1590, a generation after Michelangelo’s death, the dome he designed for Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome was finally completed. In 1597 Pope Clement VIII commissioned the mosaic decoration of the interior of the dome, choosing Cristoforo Roncalli in part because of his training in Florence, an origin he shared with Michelangelo. Roncalli made this preparatory drawing for the angels that would appear at each side of the four Evangelists in the trapezoidal spaces where the dome meets the supporting arches, called pendentives. Roncalli practiced rendering the foreshortened human form in three studies across the sheet, which are early stages of the design.
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Pomarancio (Cristoforo Roncalli) — Flying Angel
Sassoferrato (Giovanni Battista Salvi) — Studies of Two Flyi
Cosmas Damian Asam — Two Angels Flying; verso: God the Fathe
Carlo Maratti — Allegorical Figure of Peace
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo — A Flock of Winged Cherubs in the
Frederico Zuccaro (Italian, 1540/1–1609) — Design for a Wall
Anonymous, Italian, 17th century|Giovanni Francesco Romanell
Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century — Putto
Rosso Fiorentino — Figural Studies for a Scene (The Birth of
Antonio d'Enrico Tanzio (Tanzio da Varallo) — Studies for an
Anonymous, Italian, 16th century — Architectural Sketches an
Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century — Adoratio
