Design for the Coat of Arms of a Cardinal with three Angels
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 5/8 × 10 1/2 in. (21.9 × 26.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph McCrindle Foundation Gift, 2023
Accession Number
2023.149
Art Historical Context
This exquisite red chalk drawing, titled *Design for the Coat of of a Cardinal with three*, dates to around 1640–1660 and hails from 17th-century Italy.ributed to the circle of Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Pietro da Cortona (ietro Berrettini)—two masters of the Roman Baroque—the sheet measures a modest 8⅝ × 10½ inches. Recently acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art through Joseph McCrindle Foundation, it exemplifies the preparatory sketches that fueled the era's opulent ecclesiastical decorations. In the Baroque period, Italy's Catholic Church commissioned such designs to adorn chapels, ...