A Prophet Addressed by an Angel

1517·black chalk with gray and brown wash above four stylus arcs at bottom right, heightened with white and squared with red chalk on blue paper, laid down on late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century mount·overall: 32 × 25 cm (12 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1517
Medium: black chalk with gray and brown wash above four stylus arcs at bottom right, heightened with white and squared with red chalk on blue paper, laid down on late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century mount
Dimensions: overall: 32 × 25 cm (12 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Collection: National Gallery of Art
Artist: Sebastiano del Piombo

Artist

Sebastiano del Piombo

Painting

Sebastiano del Piombo was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods, famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained with the monumental forms of the Roman school. He belongs both to the painting school of his native city, Venice, where he made significant contributions before he left for Rome in 1511, and that of Rome, where he stayed for the rest of his life, and whose style he thoroughly adopted.

Venice, Italy

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