Scheme for the Decoration of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Date:
c. 1508
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, and charcoal on cream laid paper
Dimensions:
10 inches × 14 5/8 inches (25.4 × 37.15 cm)
Credit Line:
City of Detroit Purchase
Object number:
27.2.B
Pen sketches of a seated nude woman supporting large foliante on her knee, a putto beside her holds a book. Draperies and architectural fragments. Sketches in black chalk of an arm with parts of a garment.
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