Scheme for the Decoration of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo Italian, 1475-1564
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Scheme for the Decoration of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

ca. 1508

Michelangelo

1475-1564

Italian

Unknown

Pen and brown ink, and charcoal on cream laid paper

Sheet: 14 11/16 × 9 7/8 inches (37.3 × 25.1 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

City of Detroit Purchase

27.2.B

This work is in the public domain.

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Stamp, in black, lower left corner: Emile Wauters (Lugt 911 and 912, Suppl. 911)

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Emile Wauters (Brussels, Belgium and Paris, France) June 15-16, 1926, sold by Frederick Muller and Co. (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

1927-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Michelangelo, Scheme for the Decoration of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, ca. 1508, pen and brown ink, and charcoal on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 27.2.B.

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