Design for Candlestick or for a Crucifix Base
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over leadpoint
Dimensions
14 15/16 x 7 13/16 in. (37.9 x 19.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955
Accession Number
55.660.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
This exquisite drawing, titled *Design for Candlestick or for a Crucifix Base*, to around 1540–47 and showcases the collaborative talents of Luzio Luzzi (also known Luzio Romano or Luz da Todi), a sculptor and architect, andino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi), leading Mannerist painter from Raphael's circle. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, this large sheet (nearly 15 x 8 inches) exemplifies the ornate architectural fantasies of mid-16th-century Rome, where such designs served as blueprints for lavish liturgical furnishings in churches. Executed in pen ...