Poros Assailed by the Macedonian Army (recto)
c. 1545/47
- Medium
- pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash; framing lines in gold paint
- Dimensions
- 19.3 × 27.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-209143
Perino del Vaga made this spirited pen and ink and wash drawing as a preliminary sketch for a fresco cycle depicting the military campaigns of Alexander the Great, intended for the apartments of Pope Paul III in the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome. At the time, he was also working on commissions at the Vatican Palace where he studied and drew from the frescoes of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. One pose in the drawing, that of the man in front who, sword poised over his head, prepares to strike a man below, was probably inspired by Michelangelo’s rendering of David and Goliath on the ceiling. …
Provenance
Holden Funds, 1992.3.a
Registry history
- c. 1545/47 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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