Saint Zenobius raising a youth from the dead

Blatt: 253 x 302 mm

Physical Description: Pen in brown, brush in brown, black and grey, washed in brown, heightened in white with brush, traces of red chalk, over traces of a preliminary drawing in black chalk, on brown-prepared laid paper

Inventory Number: 14318

Object Number: 14318 Z

Status: On display, Department of Prints and Drawings Exhibition Gallery

Texts

About the Work

Like those gathered in the scene depicted here, we witness the working of a miracle. With rapt amazement, the bystanders look on as a bishop grips the arm of a man lying on the ground and helps him up. The composition bears reference to a painting by Cortona’s pupil Ciro Ferri in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. That circumstance, in turn, aids us in interpreting the subject matter: Legend has it that Saint Zenobius, the first bishop of Florence, restored a youth to life.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Saint Zenobius raising a youth from the dead

Draughtsman

Pietro Paolo Baldini attributed

Verso: Sketch

Period Produced

17th century

School

Baroque

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Pen in brown, brush in brown, black and grey, washed in brown, heightened in white with brush, traces of red chalk, over traces of a preliminary drawing in black chalk, on brown-prepared laid paper

Material

Technique

Production Reason

Pictorial drawing

Captions Added Later: Verso bezeichnet rechts mittig (mit schwarzer Kreide): 42 [auf dem Kopf stehend] 84, links unterhalb der Mitte „143/8“, unten mittig vertikal (mit der Feder in Braun) unleserlich; unten rechts: di Pietro da Cortona; unten links sehr schwacher Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts (L. 2356)