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Sketches for a Wall Tomb with Skeletons
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Sketches for a Wall Tomb with Skeletons

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

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

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

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Gian Lorenzo Bernini

1598–1680

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