Apotheosis of Saint Elias
Medium
Pen and black ink, and brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
35 × 23 cm (13 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
117800
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
School of Carlo Maratti · 1625–1713
**The School of Carlo Maratti** encompasses the influential workshop and artistic tradition led by the Italian Baroque master Carlo Maratti (1625–1713), whose studio in Rome became the most prominent training ground for painters in the late seventeenth century. Maratti himself was born on May 18, 1625, in Camerano in the Papal States and moved early to Rome, where he studied under Andrea Sacchi, e...