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TITLE:
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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
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CATEGORY:
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Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)
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MATERIALS:
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Pen and brown ink, wash, over black chalk
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MARKINGS:
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numbered lower left "45111"; inscribed verso: "ja: Palma"
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SIZE:
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h: 28 x w: 22 cm / h: 11 x w: 8.7 in
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REGION:
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Italian
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STYLE:
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Old Masters
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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This previously unpublished drawing is an important addition to the oeuvre of this Roman artist. It displays all the stylistic hallmarks of Taddeo's drawings between 1556-1558 and could easily have been executed at the time Taddeo was working on the frescoes in the Frangipani Chapel in the Roman church of S. Marcello al Corso. The very long, tapering, elegant fingers and the draped figures seen from behind with their Pontormesque pneumatic volumes are distinctly identifiable with this commission as comparison with his drawings of "Saint Paul Restoring Eutychus to Life", "Martyrdom of Saint Paul", "The Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness" and the enigmatic "Women Approaching a Small Image of a Bull".
The pose of Christ is quite similar to that of the Baptist in the Morgan Library drawing as well as reminiscent of that of Saint Paul in The Healing of the Cripple in the Frangipani Chapel, a study for which is in the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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