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Study of the Head and Shoulders of a Young Man

Lodovico Cigoli, 1594

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

This very beautiful, rapidly-executed oil-sketch of a young man, obviously taken from the life, has all the immediacy of a drawing with the scale and grandeur of a painting. The subject has been identified as a study for the head of an angel in the upper part of Cigoli's St Heraclius carrying the Cross, which is in the church of San Marco in Florence. This sketch most powerfully demonstrates Cigoli's masterly use of colour, which can be traced to the influence of Barocci whose own oil-sketches of single heads it so much resembles.

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Title of artwork, date

Study of the Head and Shoulders of a Young Man, 1594

Date supported

1984

Medium and material

Oil on paper laid on canvas

Dimensions

44 x 36 cm

Grant

5625

Total cost

7500

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