Head of the Swooning Virgin: Study for the Deposition (recot) Base of Column (verso)
Federico Barocci
1568/69
Medium
Black chalk and charcoal, with stumping and traces of white chalk, on tan laid paper, pieced and incised
Dimensions
29.4 × 23.9 cm (11 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112731
About the Artist
Federico Barocci · 1535–1612
Federico Barocci (c. 1535–1612) was an Italian painter from Urbino whose luminous, emotionally tender religious paintings made him one of the most original and influential artists of the late sixteenth century, bridging Mannerism and the early Baroque. Born in Urbino, the city of Raphael, he studied under Battista Franco and traveled to Rome, where he absorbed the lessons of Raphael, Correggio, an...