This work consists of multiple parts

Related external works: Reference

Michelangelo: Captif (l'Esclave rebelle) / Der Rebellische Sklave, 1513, Marmor, 209 cm. Inv. Nr. M.R. 1589, Musée du Louvre, Département des Sculptures, Paris

Michelangelo: Etude d'homme nu et trois études pour lutte de Jacob et l'Ange, ca. 1513, Rötel über Spuren vom Metallstift, auf Papier, 327 x 200 mm. Inv. Nr. EBA 197, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Realisation

Tizian: Altobello Averoldi-Polyptychon, 1522, Holz, ca. 336 x 296 cm (fünf Tafeln). SS. Nazaro e Celso, Brescia (Valcanover 1969.105)

Part of the same work process

Tizian: Der Heilige Sebastian und eine Madonna mit Kind (Skizzen zum Altobello Averoldi-Polyptychon), Feder in Braun auf Papier, 162 x 136 mm. Inv. Nr. KdZ 5962, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

Study for St. Sebastian in the high altar of SS. Nazarro e Celso, Brescia, ca. 1519 – 1520

Blatt: 182 x 115 mm

Physical Description: Brown ink, brown washes, highlighted with white, on grey-blue laid paper, distance of chain lines (horizontal) |32|32|34|33|

Inventory Number: 5518

Object Number: 5518 Z

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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About the Work

Thought to be from the hand of Johann David Passavant at the time of its acquisition, the drawing was not recognized as a work by Titian until the beginning of the twentieth century. Today it is one of the few dated works on paper whose attribution to Titian is not doubted. Like a drawing in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, it served as a study for the panel of Saint Sebastian (1522) in the Averoldi Polyptych for the high altar of the Church of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Brescia. Titian took inspiration for this study from Michelangelo’s sculpture of the Rebellious Slave, executed in 1513.

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Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Study for St. Sebastian in the high altar of SS. Nazarro e Celso, Brescia

Draughtsman

Titian

Contractor, employer

Altobello Averoldi

Verso: Study of a head in profile, three feet and a lower leg

Period Produced

16th century

School

High Renaissance

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Brown ink, brown washes, highlighted with white, on grey-blue laid paper, distance of chain lines (horizontal) |32|32|34|33|

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

Venetian

Production Reason

Captions Added Later: Bezeichnet oben links (mit Feder in Braun): nº 24 // pal [pai?]; unten (mit schwarzem Stift): [ausradiert]; verso bezeichnet unten rechts: χοξο [χοεο?; χορό, Akk. sing. von χορός?; alternativ bei um 180° gedrehtem Blatt: 030X]
Verso oben rechts Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

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