Sketches for a Wall Tomb with Skeletons

Sketches for a Wall Tomb with Skeletons by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Medium

Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (recto); black chalk (verso)

Dimensions

11-1/2 x 8-13/16 in. (29.2 x 22.4 cm) maximum; irregular borders

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Edward Pearce Casey Fund and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1998

Accession Number

1998.33a, b

Tags

Skeletons

About the Artist

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Italian sculptor, architect, painter, and designer who is considered to be the supreme artist of the Italian Baroque. His important patrons included the Barberini and Borghese families. Italian architect. Comment on works: sculptor

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