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Design for a monument to Pope Clement XI
Artist: Pietro Bracci (1700 - 1773)
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Date: 1743
Materials: black chalk & pen & black and red inks & brown, grey and green washes & white gouache on paper
Dimensions: 42.5 x 25.6cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,000 (Total: £19,950)
Vendor: Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox
Review number: 5191 (2003)
Provenance:
Unknown European Collection; Christie's, New York, 2003; Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London. The work has been vetted by the Art Loss Register.
Description:
Design for an unexecuted tomb of Pope Clement XI Albani (1700-1721), from a time in Bracci's career when his connections with the family were increasing. Includes elements which were reused in later designs e.g. the radical idea of a dynamic, standing figure of the pope; and the papal sarcophagus flanked by allegories of Strength and Religion. A scaled ground plan is included, and evidence of revisions and corrections reveal the working methods of the artist.
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