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View at the museum ↗Allegory of the Elevation of Cardinal Deacon Oddone Colonna to the Papal Chair as Pope Martin V
Benedetto Luti1700
- Attribution
- Benedetto Luti Italian, 1666–1724
- 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
- Physical dimensions
- 49.5 × 38.6 cm (19 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
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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.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0