Allegory of the Elevation of Cardinal Deacon Oddone Colonna to the Papal Chair as Pope Martin V
Benedetto Luti (Italian, 1666–1724)
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About this work
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.
- 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
- Original size
- 49.5 × 38.6 cm (19 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.)
Museum record · 3 owners · 1 exhibition
Provenance
- Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri (1676–1742), Rome, by 1722.
- Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 28, 2000, lot 33.
- Private collection; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 30, 2013, lot 243, to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibitions
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp, 36-37, GC 58, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
