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The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia (Cartoon for a Fresco)
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The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia (Cartoon for a Fresco)

Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri)

1612–14

Medium

Charcoal highlighted with white chalk on fourteen sheets of blue laid paper, two of the sheets cut from elsewhere on the original cartoon and reset at the left and right margins to make up the oval

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MenWomenSaints

Dimensions

Irregular oval: 67 13/16 × 59 9/16 in. (172.2 × 151.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Wrightsman Fund, 1998

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri)

1581–1641 • Papal States

Domenichino was the son of a son of a successful shoemaker. He studied and worked with Ludovico Carracci's studio and under Annibale Carracci. From his frescoes and altarpieces, he was an influential exponent of the 17th-century classical style. Best known for landscapes and for sensitive depictions of facial expression and gestures.

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