drawing
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.473
- Description
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A ceremony beneath the colonnade of a classic temple with St Catherine and Pope Gregory, after Polidoro
Red chalk
- Production date
- 1540-1560 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 249 millimetres
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Width: 382 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Copied from part of the landscape in Polidoro's fresco with stories from the life of St Catherine of Siena in the Fetti chapel in S. Silvestro al Quirinale, Rome, painted by Polidoro in 1525-7, see P. Leone de Castris, 'Polidoro da Caravaggio, l'opera completa', Naples, 2001, pl. 39, p. 227 . This copy was attributed to Francesco Salviati by Paul Joannides.
Lit.: A.E. Popham, 'Catalogue of Drawings in the Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., now in the possession of his Grandson, T. Fitzroy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham', I, London, 1935, pp. 31-2, no. 1 (as Beccafumi; amended to copy by Beccafumi after Polidoro on p. 242)); P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, 'Italian Drawings in the BM, Raphael and His Circle', London, 1962, I, Appendix III, p. 177; L. Ravelli 'Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio', Bergamo 1978, no .407; P. Joannides, 'More on Francesco Salviati as a Copyist', "Master Drawings", XLVIII, 2010, pp. 320-1 (as Salviati).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.473
