The Pietà (recto)

Ludovico Cardi called Cigoli

The image is an ink and red chalk sketch on paper showing a group of people depicted from the upper bodies and heads. Three main figures are featured, with the central figure possibly representing a religious… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Ludovico Cardi called Cigoli ¹
Medium: brown ink on laid paper, squared for transfer in red chalk and graphite ¹
Original: 3,298 × 5,034 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of David E. Rust

Object record, National Gallery of Art

Historical context appears here only once it has verified sources. An empty record is better than a wrong one.

Computed from the image

warmlow contrastlight tonesportrait

Measured from pixels, not historical readings.

Close in palette, light and contrast · computed

[Apple Blossoms]/[Summer], Deloss Barnum

The photograph shows part of the texts and sacred scenes on the external wall of the hypostyle hall from the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris at Kom Ombo.

[Unidentified man reading while seated], Benedetti & Boccalini

In contrast

Similar light, opposite temperature · computed

Quebec. Break neck steps at the foot of which was found the tomb of Champlain., Unknown

Related

In contrast