Study of a Seated Youth for the Age of Gold. Artist: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596-1669 Rome). Dimensions: 11-1/4 x 10-1/4 in. (28.6 x 26 cm). Date: 1637.In June 1637, Pietro da Cortona, the leading Italian Baroque painter of his time, arrived in Florence and immediately began a fresco cycle commissioned by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando II (1610-1670) and his wife Vittoria della Rovere (1622-1694), for the Camera della Stufa in the Pitti Palace. The subject was the "Four Ages of the World" as recounted at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a classical literary source. Together with another sheet in the Museum's collection (inv. 1972.118.250), this drawing is a study for a youth seated at the left in the "Age of Gold". In this fresco a young woman crowns the seated youth with a laurel of victory, an allusion to the name Vittoria, while putti, laden with branches of oak (rovere), advance without disturbing a docile lion, these are references to

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Study of a Seated Youth for the Age of Gold. Artist: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596-1669 Rome). Dimensions: 11-1/4 x 10-1/4 in. (28.6 x 26 cm). Date: 1637.In June 1637, Pietro da Cortona, the leading Italian Baroque painter of his time, arrived in Florence and immediately began a fresco cycle commissioned by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando II (1610-1670) and his wife Vittoria della Rovere (1622-1694), for the Camera della Stufa in the Pitti Palace. The subject was the "Four Ages of the World" as recounted at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a classical literary source. Together with another sheet in the Museum's collection (inv. 1972.118.250), this drawing is a study for a youth seated at the left in the "Age of Gold". In this fresco a young woman crowns the seated youth with a laurel of victory, an allusion to the name Vittoria, while putti, laden with branches of oak (rovere), advance without disturbing a docile lion, these are references to

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