Christ Disputing with the Doctors in the Temple

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Christ Disputing with the Doctors in the Temple

1539?

Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi, also called il Cecchino) (Italian, 1510–1563) Formerly attributed to Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511–1574)

An important Mannerist painter, Salviati provided decorative works in fresco and oil for churches and palaces in Rome, Florence, and Venice. The composition of this drawing is taken directly from an earlier famous monument in Florence that was created between about 1400 and 1424, one of Lorenzo Ghiberti's bronze relief panels on the doors of the city's venerable Baptistery.

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Object Details

Titles:

Christ Disputing with the Doctors in the Temple

Date:

1539?

Artists:

Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi, also called il Cecchino) (Italian, 1510–1563) Formerly attributed to Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511–1574)

Medium:

Pen and brush and brown ink, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on laid paper toned with brown wash

Dimensions:

Sheet: 10 11/16 x 16 5/16 inches (27.1 x 41.5 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman and the Edgar Viguers Seeler Fund (by exchange), 1984

Accession Number:

1984-56-78

Geography:

Made in Italy, Europe

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