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On this sheet Bramer sketched two studies for ceiling paintings in the tradition of Correggio. On the recto fifteen angel sing and play musical instruments and five putti surround a cloud. The composition on the verso is more complicated. In the centre, three bands of angels recede toward a distant burst of heavenly light. The lower level of clouds is occupied by elderly men with large books who must be the four Latin fathers of the Church: Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory, and Jerome, who is identified by a lion.
Bramer is known to have decorated several ceilings, however, few of them have survived.
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