The Seven Archangels (recto)
c. 1620s
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brown wash, traces of black chalk (recto)
- Dimensions
- 9.5 × 35.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-210529
Massimo Stanzione worked in the Spanish-held Kingdom of Naples, where, during the 17th century, painting was characterized by dramatic expression, emphatic naturalism, and intense chiaroscuro derived from the profound influence of Caravaggio (1571-1610). Stanzione, however, was known in the city as one of the main purveyors of a more classical style, a kind of antithesis to the passion and drama of such Neapolitan painters as Jusepe de Ribera. This drawing relates directly to a painting Stanzione made depicting the seven archangels at the Monasterio de la Descalzas Reales in Madrid. The icono…
Provenance
Wade Fund, 2025.132.a
Registry history
- c. 1620s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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