drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5214.248
- Description
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Massacre of the Innocents; beneath ornately decorated arches, men with daggers and weapons attacking young children shielded by their mothers, one child reaching out to another fallen at left, a man at centre holding a boy by the ear; formerly in the 1637 album containing 279 miscellaneous drawings
Pen and brown ink, with grey-brown wash, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1590 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 413 millimetres
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Width: 538 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Giovanni Agosti noted that this is a study for one of the side walls in chapel XI dedicated to the Massacre of the Innocents commissioned from Giovanni Battitsta and his brother Mauro in 1590 as part of the Sacro Monte at Varallo devotional complex. The painted terracotta sculptures that fill the centre of the chapel by Giacomo Paracca Bargnola da Valsoda were completed by the following year.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5214.248
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: T,10.248
