Saint Charles Borromeo Supervising the Opening of a Crypt
Cesare Nebbia (Italian, 1536–1614)
c. 1604
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 16.2 × 21.3 cm (6 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of John A. Bross in memory of Louise Smith Bross
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Federico Zuccaro painted another of the Collegio Borromeo frescos. His inscription on this drawing indicates his ownership of the work, which he presumably acquired from Nebbia directly. Its subject matter relates to Borromeo’s miraculous discovery of a group of holy relics in a crypt. In each of the three Bross drawings relating to the frescos, the saint is identifiable by his characteristically large nose.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
