Virtue Crowned by Honor 1670-76 Carlo Maratti Italian During the pontificate of Clement X Altieri (r. 1670-76), his family palace on the Piazza del Gesù in Rome was enlarged and redecorated. Carlo Maratti, a gifted draftsman and the leading baroque painter in Rome, was commissioned to paint the main room between 1674 and 1677, but only the fresco that fills the long, narrow central section of the vault of Palazzo Altieri was executed. The undecorated portions of the vault were to contain allegorical figures representing Religion, Faith, Divine Wisdom, and Evangelical Truth. Together with three other sheets in the Metropolitan Museum (inv. nos. 64.295.1, 66.137 and 66.53.3) the present study relates to the Altieri decoration and constitutes a preliminary sketch by Maratti for an Allegorical Virtue crowned by Honor. Maratti executed the figure on blue paper with a quick sketch in pen and ink, highlighted with white gouache, and developed this dynamic group on a second, highly-finished dr

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Virtue Crowned by Honor 1670-76 Carlo Maratti Italian During the pontificate of Clement X Altieri (r. 1670-76), his family palace on the Piazza del Gesù in Rome was enlarged and redecorated. Carlo Maratti, a gifted draftsman and the leading baroque painter in Rome, was commissioned to paint the main room between 1674 and 1677, but only the fresco that fills the long, narrow central section of the vault of Palazzo Altieri was executed. The undecorated portions of the vault were to contain allegorical figures representing Religion, Faith, Divine Wisdom, and Evangelical Truth. Together with three other sheets in the Metropolitan Museum (inv. nos. 64.295.1, 66.137 and 66.53.3) the present study relates to the Altieri decoration and constitutes a preliminary sketch by Maratti for an Allegorical Virtue crowned by Honor. Maratti executed the figure on blue paper with a quick sketch in pen and ink, highlighted with white gouache, and developed this dynamic group on a second, highly-finished dr

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