Martyrium des Heiligen Johannes

Title

Martyrium des Heiligen Johannes

Draughtsman

• Gaspare Diziani

Part Number / Total

20 / 126

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• chalk?
• coal?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• brush drawing
• pencil drawing
• chalk drawing?
• charcoal drawing?

Geographic Reference

• Venetian

Production Reason

• design for an altarpiece
• composition study

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet mit der zugehörigen Inventarnummer (mit Bleistift)

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1907

Genre

• historical narration
• depiction of a saint

Persons Shown

• John the Evangelist

Primary

• 73F2351 martyrdom of John in front of the Porta Latina: he is put in a cauldron of boiling oil, but remains unharmed

Historic Attribution

• Venetian, 18th century draughtsman