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Drawing, Design for Allegory of Divine Wisdom, Reception Room, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Andrea Sacchi. It is dated 1629–1631 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is brush and brown wash, pen and brown ink, red, black, and white chalk on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.

Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

  • Drawing, Ceiling Design
  • graphite on off-white laid paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
  • 1938-88-6825

Its dimensions are

31.2 x 33.3 cm (12 5/16 x 13 1/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed with point of brush and brown wash, center right: candidezza; inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper left: 277

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for Allegory of Divine Wisdom, Reception Room, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy; Designed by Andrea Sacchi (Italian, 1599 – 1661); Italy; brush and brown wash, pen and brown ink, red, black, and white chalk on off-white laid paper; 31.2 x 33.3 cm (12 5/16 x 13 1/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors; 1901-39-1714

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.

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