Study for the Age of Silver
by CORTONA, Pietro da, Black chalk and white lead on blue paper, 400 x 251 mm
Pietro da Cortona created a figure that is both monumental and borne aloft upon horizontal draperies. In the final fresco, in Palazzo Pitti’s Stanza della Stufa, the artist evidently corrected for the height of the fresco, since the foreshortening is more marked in the drawing.