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The Seven Archangels (recto); Studies of an Archangel and a Wind God (verso)
About the Artwork
Massimo Stanzione worked in the Spanish-held Kingdom of Naples, where, during the 1600s, painting was characterized by dramatic expression, emphatic naturalism, and intense chiaroscuro derived from the profound influence of Caravaggio (1571–1610). Stanzione, however, was known in the city as one of the main purveyors of a more classical style, a kind of antithesis to the passion and drama of such Neapolitan painters as Jusepe de Ribera. This drawing relates directly to a painting Stanzione made depicting the seven archangels at the Monasterio de la Descalzas Reales in Madrid. The iconography of the seven archangels was a regional focus of devotion in the Neapolitan kingdom, and in Spain, where the cult of the “Seven Angelic Princes” had been promoted by the 16th-century Sicilian friar Antonio Del Duca (1491–1564).
Provenance
Private Collection, Spain and France ?–2025: (Sabrier et Paunet, Paris, France, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) June 9, 2025–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Massimo Stanzione (Italian, 1585–1656)
- Date
- c. 1620s
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brown wash, traces of black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso),
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9.5 x 35.8 cm (3 3/4 x 14 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Accession no.
- 2025.132
More by Massimo Stanzione in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011251
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