Saint Charles Borromeo Entering the Town of Pavia: Design for a Wall Decoration
c. 1604
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on buff card
Dimensions
Primary support: 15.3 × 31 cm (6 1/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 15.7 × 31.3 cm (6 3/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
223804
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Cardinal Charles Borromeo (1538–1584) was one of the major figures of the Counter-Reformation in late-16th-century Rome. To mark and promote Borromeo’s beatification, in 1602, Nebbia was commissioned to decorate the ceiling and walls of the Collegio Borromeo, in Pavia, in his honor. While this drawing may have been intended for a never-completed fresco on the north or south wall, the two other drawings on view nearby were used for monochrome frescos. Borromeo’s case progressed to the Congregatio...
About the Artist
Cesare Nebbia · 1536–1614
Italian painter. Comment on works: Religious; Portraits