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St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary, is the elderly female saint kneeling on the floor in the interior of a temple and the heavenly apparition that takes place above her head foretells her concept [+]
Although traditionally attributed to Parmigianino (1503-1540), the style seems to suggest a later period, around 1600. The draftsman appears to have been acquainted with the work of Bartolomeo Cesi (1 [+]
The rather dry technique of drawing in red chalk on light blue-grey paper suggest the work of the Bolognese painter Bartolomeo Cesi, who travelled to Rome in 1591, thought he may have visited the city [+]
In her 1983 catalogue, Mena Marques rightly brought attention to the very high quality of this drawing and suggested the style could be Sienese, from the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning [+]
