Bearded Man with his Right Arm Raised
Medium
Black, red, and ocher chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on bluish gray laid paper
Dimensions
20.6 × 26.3 cm (8 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202146
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Between 1562 and 1566, Salviati was in Rome working on a commission for two large frescoes in the Sala Regia, a formal reception hall in the Vatican. This sheet is a single-figure study for the first of these, which depicts the peace treaty that Pope Alexander III and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa reached in Venice in 1177. The corresponding painted figure can be seen in the large crowd at right in the fresco. An example of the artist’s mature draftsmanship, the drawing demonstrates a...