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The Holy Trinity with Saint Michael Conquering the Dragon
Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596-1669)
1666
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with lead white (discolored) and black chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laid card
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 45.8 × 35.7 cm (18 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Pietro da Cortona was active in Rome as an architect, painter, and decorator. This majestic sheet reflects his virtuosity in all these fields, approximating High Baroque ceiling frescoes in its play of light and active, sculptural forms. It probably served as a model for a painting once in the Vatican but now lost.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
