Attributed to Ludovico Cardi, il Cigoli (1559-1613)

Details

Attributed to Ludovico Cardi, il Cigoli (1559-1613)

Design for a temporary Decoration with two Skeletons flanking the Entrance with a Ciborium beyond

with inscriptions 'Bernardino' (verso) and on the mount 'del Poccetti'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
168 x 200mm.

Literature

P. Fuhring, no. 981

Exhibited

Nijmegen and Haarlem, Wanden en Plafonds. Tekeningen uit de Verzameling Lodewijk Houthakker, 1985, no. 130

Lot Essay

The subject of the drawing can be interpreted as a salvation of the soul through the Sacrament of the Eucharist, represented by the ciborium, which triumphs over Death. Studies of skeletons by Cigoli are in the Uffizi, G.G. Bertelà and A. Petrioli Tofani, Feste a Apparati Medicei da Cosimo I a Cosimo II, Florence, 1969, no. 83, pl. 38