About this artwork
This large and impressive drawing depicts the election of Oddone Colonna as Pope Martin V in 1417, an event that ended the Western Schism in the Catholic Church, when multiple parties claimed the title of pope. A highly finished study for a painting installed on a ceiling in the Palazzo Colonna in Rome, it depicts Colonna receiving the keys of Saint Peter from a kneeling figure while allegorical figures of Faith, Hope, and Charity, among others, look on.
Highly theatrical and emotionally expressive, the drawing epitomizes late Baroque virtuoso design and draftsmanship.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Benedetto Luti
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Title
- Allegory of the Elevation of Cardinal Deacon Oddone Colonna to the Papal Chair as Pope Martin V
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1700
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Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black and red chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on joined sheets of laid paper, mounted to paperboard
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed, lower left: "Cav': Benedetto Luti fece in Roma."
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Dimensions
- 49.5 × 38.6 cm (19 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
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Reference Number
- 2019.882
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/248308/manifest.json
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