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Cleveland Museum of Art118663landscapePaolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588)c. 1570CC0cma sacred-art design-assets ink-paper-impressions sacred art design assets ink paper impressions sketch drawing monochrome brown tones religious biblical figures gesture composition sketchbook renaissance italian drawing study charcoal draft unfinished various sketches the madonna and child recto architectural studies verso partially visiblePaolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588) c. 1570 Italy, Venice pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash Drawing European ReligiousSacred & Devotional The Maker’s Cabinet Ink, Paper & Impressions
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Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto); Architectural Studies (verso) [partially visible on recto] by Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528–1588) (c. 1570). Gift of Robert Hays Gries Rights: CC0. https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.670
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In the last decades of his career, Paolo Veronese and his workshop produced a number of idyllic visions of the Holy Family in repose in the countryside during their flight into Egypt. This crowded sheet of loose, lively sketches was recently proposed to have inaugurated an intensive period of interest in this subject that began around 1570. The sheet shows two horizontal rows with eight versions of the seated Virgin holding the Christ Child, in some of the sketches accompanied by the infant John the Baptist or Joseph, and in one by a donkey. The sheet presents an unusual case of being preparatory not for paintings, but for finished chiaroscuro drawings, now in London, Berlin, and Cambridge, MA. While the individual sketches may appear at first glance a mass of tangled lines and confused forms, such pen and ink drawings demonstrate the Venetian artist's restless creative energy.
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A monochromatic drawing depicts numerous unfinished sketches of biblical scenes and figures in various poses and drapery.
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