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Apotheosis of a Saint
Corrado Giaquintoca. 1750
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Saint born to heaven by a swirling group of cherubim and angels.
Details
- Title: Apotheosis of a Saint
- Creator: Corrado Giaquinto
- Creator Lifespan: 1703/1765
- Date Created: ca. 1750
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, black chalk on cream laid paper
- Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli; Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee
- Exhibitions: New York, NY- Finch College Museum of Art, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," Feb. 4 - March 20, 1970: 1901-39-411
- Dimensions: 32.6 x 42.7 cm (12 13/16 x 16 13/16 in.)
- Bibliography: "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," exhibition catalog (New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1970) p. 29, no. 54 (illus.).
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