Saint John the Baptist Baptizing the Multitude 1554-56 Pellegrino Tibaldi Italian The drawing is a study for the lower half of a fresco on the left wall of the Poggi Chapel, representing Saint John The Baptist Baptizing the Multitudes’ (San Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna), and probably dating between 1554 and 1556. The energetic tangle of lines of this drawing recalls the style of Taddeo Zuccaro, who, like Tibaldi, was active in Rome in the 1540s and 1550s. Like Tibaldi's imaginative frescoes for the Palazzo Poggi (for which see also the preparatory study for the figure of Aeolus in the Museum’s collection: acc. no. 2007.127), the frescoes in the Poggi chapel had considerable influence on such Bolognese artists as Samacchini and Passarotti. Moreover, when Lodovico, Agostino, and Annibale Carracci founded their famous academy in Bologna - in which they sought to reform painting through a renewed study of nature combined with a study of the best artworks - the Poggi Chapel was among the mode

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Saint John the Baptist Baptizing the Multitude 1554-56 Pellegrino Tibaldi Italian The drawing is a study for the lower half of a fresco on the left wall of the Poggi Chapel, representing Saint John The Baptist Baptizing the Multitudes’ (San Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna), and probably dating between 1554 and 1556. The energetic tangle of lines of this drawing recalls the style of Taddeo Zuccaro, who, like Tibaldi, was active in Rome in the 1540s and 1550s. Like Tibaldi's imaginative frescoes for the Palazzo Poggi (for which see also the preparatory study for the figure of Aeolus in the Museum’s collection: acc. no. 2007.127), the frescoes in the Poggi chapel had considerable influence on such Bolognese artists as Samacchini and Passarotti. Moreover, when Lodovico, Agostino, and Annibale Carracci founded their famous academy in Bologna - in which they sought to reform painting through a renewed study of nature combined with a study of the best artworks - the Poggi Chapel was among the mode

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