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Design for an Altar with a Painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds and God the Father Above
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Design for an Altar with a Painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds and God the Father Above

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over traces of graphite

Dimensions

sheet: 9 3/4 x 5 7/8 in. (24.7 x 15 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giovanni Battista Foggini

1652–1725Grand Duchy of Tuscany

Foggini was the foremost sculptor of Baroque Florence. After Pietro Tacca's death, he was appointed grand ducal sculptor and later became the court architect. His only rival was Massimiliano Soldani. Comment on works: Sculptor