Study for the "Madonna of the Rosary"
c. 1589
Medium
Black chalk, with brush and brown wash, red chalk, and touches of graphite, heightened with white chalk and white gouache, on tan laid paper, squared in red chalk
Dimensions
28.2 × 39 cm (11 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
Classification
drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202150
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...