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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Buonarroti, Michelangelo Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Italian Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1475 - 1564 Gender: M Creator Name-CRT: Michelangelo Title: Studies for the Sistine Ceiling: Ignudo Title Type: Former Title: Studies for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling: The Nude Figure next to the Prophet Daniel Title Type: alternate Title: Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1510 Creation End Date: 1511 Creation Date: 1510/1511 Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors Materials and Techniques: red chalk over black chalk Dimensions: Sheet: 33.5cm x 23.4cm, Secondary Support: 34.4cm x 24.4cm Inscriptions: lower right, in black ink: 55 [crossed out] ; SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in purple crayon: [illegible] O a ; lower center, in graphite: 80 AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1940.465.a Credit Line: Gift in memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Provenance: Pierre Jean Mariette (Lugt 1852, stamped, lower left, in black ink); Burckel, Vienna; Dr. Alexander de Frey, Tamesvar, Romania; Henry G. Dalton, Cleveland; George S. and Harry D. Kendrick, Cleveland. Sale: Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier 12-14 June 1933 (de Frey collection), no. 7, pl. ii (verso, as school of Michelangelo). Context: Michelangelo, who is universally recognized as one of the greatest artists, regarded himself as primarily a sculptor. The peak of his early career, however, was the vast ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel, in which he depicted scenes from the Old Testament. This is a preparatory drawing for the monumental nude youths who sit at the four corners of every other narrative scene in the fresco. It is one of a small group executed during the second phase of Michelangelo's work on the chapel ceiling (1511-1512), in which he used red chalk with a precision more typical of penwork. During the first phase, in 1508, Michelangelo had used traditional techniques: most often black chalk for loose figure studies and pen and brown ink for more finished drawings. In 1510 Michelangelo's patron, Pope Julius II, became engaged in war, and the ceiling project was discontinued until the following year. When work resumed, Michelangelo began the unusual practice of using red chalk for finished drawings instead of fine hatching in pen and brown ink, presumably after finding a supply of red chalk hard enough for such exact work. In the Cleveland drawing Michelangelo first traced an earlier drawing to the sheet with black chalk and then drew the elaborate shading over it in red chalk, probably studying the subject from a wax or terracotta model. The precise function of the drawing was to provide a detailed image of the surface modeling to copy directly onto the wet plaster of the ceiling within the outlines that had been transferred from a full-sized cartoon. AMICA ID: CMA_.1940.465.a AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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