A Flying Angel (recto); Studies of Hands Playing Instruments (verso), 1723-1727. Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682-1754). Black chalk heightened with traces of white chalk; sheet: 56.3 x 42.6 cm (22 3/16 x 16 3/4 in.). This drawing was completed in preparation for the most prestigious religious commission of Giovanni Battista Piazzettas career, the ceiling painting of the Glory of St. Dominic for the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. Both the finished painting, which depicts St. Dominics arrival in heaven amid a thundery vortex, and Piazzettas study for the angel, who carries St. Dominic on a cloud, depart from Venetian tradition. To execute this airborne subject, he likely drew from wax or clay models suspended in midair in order to study the illusionistic di sotto in su (from below to above) perspective and the play of light found on the angels shadowed form. He worked out the angels twisting pose, imbuing it with a lively sense of movement, and accentuated the

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A Flying Angel (recto); Studies of Hands Playing Instruments (verso), 1723-1727. Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682-1754). Black chalk heightened with traces of white chalk; sheet: 56.3 x 42.6 cm (22 3/16 x 16 3/4 in.). This drawing was completed in preparation for the most prestigious religious commission of Giovanni Battista Piazzettas career, the ceiling painting of the Glory of St. Dominic for the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. Both the finished painting, which depicts St. Dominics arrival in heaven amid a thundery vortex, and Piazzettas study for the angel, who carries St. Dominic on a cloud, depart from Venetian tradition. To execute this airborne subject, he likely drew from wax or clay models suspended in midair in order to study the illusionistic di sotto in su (from below to above) perspective and the play of light found on the angels shadowed form. He worked out the angels twisting pose, imbuing it with a lively sense of movement, and accentuated the

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