PINO, Marco
(b. ca. 1525, Costa del Pino, Siena, d. ca. 1587, Napoli)

Alexander the Great before the High Priest

c. 1545
Pen and brown wash, 261 x 419 mm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

This is a preliminary sketch for the scene which Marco Pino painted in the Sala Paolina, Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, where Pino worked together with Perino del Vaga and Pellegrino Tibaldi. Perino appears to have reviewed Pino's designs and to have gone back and corrected compositional weaknesses, which may be deduced by comparing the only preserved sketch by Pino with the executed fresco.




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