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    "localId": "159483",
    "label": "Study for the Head of St. Michael",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "159483",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Study for the Head of St. Michael",
    "description": "Pietro da Cortona drew this angelically beautiful face in a style reminiscent of the work of Renaissance master Raphael (1483–1520). Cortona's use of black chalk to develop extremely subtle effects of shading shows the technique at its most refined. He drew this sheet in preparation for a ceiling decoration, <em>Saint Michael and Angels with the Instruments of the Passion</em>, painted in fresco in the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella (better known as the Chiesa Nuova, or \"New Church\") in Rome, completed in 1633.",
    "date": "1633",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.257",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79979119"
    ],
    "creators": [
        1224
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Drawing"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.257/1996.257_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.257/1996.257_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 19 x 16.8 cm (7 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 31.9 x 27.6 cm (12 9/16 x 10 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, 17th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1996.257"
}

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    "tec": "black chalk",
    "tombstone": "Study for the Head of St. Michael, 1633. Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596–1669). Black chalk; sheet: 19 x 16.8 cm (7 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); secondary support: 31.9 x 27.6 cm (12 9/16 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1996.257",
    "supportMaterials": [
        {
            "description": "beige(1) laid paper, perimeter mounted to cream(3) laid paper"
        }
    ],
    "collection": "DR - Italian",
    "didYouKnow": "The fresco for which this drawing was made as a preparatory study joins works of art by Peter Paul Rubens as well as relics of the Saint Philip Neri in the Chiesa Nuova in Rome.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Merz, Jörg Martin. <em>Pietro da Cortona: Der Aufstieg zum führenden Maler im barocken Rom</em>. Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth, 1991.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 234, note 215; Reproduced: n. 366"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Russell, Francis. \"Salesroom Discovery: A Study by Pietro da Cortona.\" <em>The Burlington Magazine </em>121, no. 915 (June 1979): 405-406.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 405; Reproduced: p. 406, n. 98"
        },
        {
            "citation": "McTavish, David. <em>Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti</em>. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1985.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 76, under n. 32; Reproduced: p. 77"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Merz, Jörg Martin. \"I disegni di Pietro da Cortona per gli affreschi nella Chiesa Nuova a Roma.\" <em>Bollettino d'Arte</em> 86-87 (July-October 1994): 37-76.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 38-39; Reproduced: p. 39, n. 2"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Rodrigues, Terence, edited. <em>Christie's Review of the Year</em>. London: Christie's, 1996.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 31"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>CMA Annual Report</em> (1996)",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 28 and 47; Reproduced: p. 38"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"International Auction Review.\" <em>Drawing </em>18, no. 2 (Fall 1996): 60-61.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 60; Reproduced: p. 61"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"International Auction Review.\" <em>On Paper </em>1, no. 1 (September-October 1996): 44-47.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 45"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Adjugé.\" <em>L'objet d'art</em> 307 (November 1996): 22-23.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 22"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Russell, Francis. \"The Ferretti Collection.\" <em>Christie's International Magazine </em>13, no. 5 (June 1996): 22-23.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 22-23; Reproduced: p. 23"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, “Rare Korean Screen Painting, Important Baroque Drawing, Sheeler Drawing Join the Museum Collection,” October 10, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4074"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1996.\" <em>Gazette des Beaux-Arts </em>139 (March 1997): 3-98.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 60, n. 230"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Foster, Carter E. \"The Head of an Angel.\" <em>CMA Bulletin </em>(March 1997): 7.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Foster, Carter E., \"The Head of an Angel\" Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 37 no. 03, March 1997",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p.7",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1997-03/page/6"
        },
        {
            "citation": "DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 11, 52-53, 285; Reproduced: p. 53, n. 16"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.257",
    "creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:16:09.713000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.257/1996.257_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 159483,
    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - Italian",
    "med": "black chalk",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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