Enthroned King with Attendants
Domenico Cresti
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper laid down in album
Dimensions
20.2 × 28.3 cm (8 × 11 3/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
136053
About the Artist
Domenico Cresti · 1559–1638
Domenico Cresti (1559–1638), known as Il Passignano after his birthplace, was a Florentine painter who successfully synthesized Venetian colorism with Florentine disegno, creating a distinctive late Mannerist style that earned him prestigious commissions from both the Medici court and the papacy. Born in 1559 in Passignano, near Florence, Cresti received papal knighthood from Pope Clement VIII and...