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June 9, 1959

Museum of Art
University of Michigan
Alumni Memorial Hall
Ann Arbor, Michigan

8451 ODAZZI, Giovanni (Rome 1665 - 1731)

"STUDY FOR A CHURCH CEILING"
for the Cappella d'Elci, Santa Sabina, Rome

Watercolor

Circular composition on two rectangular sheets, Diameter: 28-3/4"

The dome of heaven is represented, an illusionistic cupola at center, with a host of cherubs and music-making angels arranged about it in concentric circles. At one side, with some compositional emphasis, Christ appears with the Virgin who presents Saint Catherine of Siena; and God the Father with the Dove, and angels with the instruments of the Passion. Around the outer edge, characters from the Old and New Testaments, popes and saints, mingle in heaven. Among others, St. John the Evangelist, St. Andrew, David, Moses, St. John the Baptist, and St. Francis are identified by their attributes. All of the figures, executed in a fresh-toned wash defined with short, broken pen strokes, are notable for their convincing weight and movement in imaginatively fore-shortened poses.

Note: Mr. Anthony Clark (of the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design), has identified this drawing with the cupola fresco in the Cappella d'Elci, of Santa Sabina, by Giovanni Odazzi, an important Roman painter, pupil of Ciro Ferri and Baciccio. Mr. Clark notes that small differences in details which are not merely simplifications, indicate this would be Odazzi's drawing before he made a scale model.

PRICE ... $1,600.-- (ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED 00/100 DOLLARS).

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