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ID: 700002028
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700002028
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
Cartoon for the Head of Saint James (drawing (visual work); Sebastiano del Piombo (Italian, about 1485 - 1547) (Italian ...; about 1520; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 82.GB.107)
Note: The cartoon was drawn for the figure of Saint James in the Transfiguration fresco in the upper part of the chapel of Pierfrancesco Borgherini in San Pietro in Montorio, Rome.The project as a whole spanned the years 1516-1524. The cartoon was preceded by a squared study for the figure of Saint James at Chatsworth (inv. 47).
Titles:
Cartoon for the Head of Saint James (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)
cartoon (working drawing) [300034442]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, drawings (visual works), <drawings by function>, working drawings)

Classifications:
drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1520

Creator Display:
Sebastiano del Piombo (Italian, about 1485 - 1547) (Italian Artist) [preferred,JPGM]
Sebastiano del Piombo (Italian painter and draftsman, born ca. 1485, died 1547) Qualifier: undetermined Extent: undetermined [500032554]
Locations:
Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 82.GB.107
Other: Creation: Italia [7030349] Roman Republic and Empire (former nation/state/empire), World (facet) (Geographic)
Other: Former: France [1000070] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: Black and white chalk, on two joined sheets of tan paper; silhouetted; pricked for transfer
chalk [300011727]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)
paper (fiber product) [300014109]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)
pricking [300101943]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <transferring and transferring techniques>, transferring techniques)
pouncing [300053427]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <transferring and transferring techniques>, transferring techniques)
silhouettes [300015423]
.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>)

Dimensions: 30.2 x 30.5 cm (11 7/8 x 12 in.)
Cultures:
Italian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:
Renaissance [300021140] (preferred,style)
.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>)

General Subject:
human figures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
James the Greater, Saint [901000049]
.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)
head (animal or human component) [300375054]
.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, biological components, animal components) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Secondary Inscription: At right, inscribed "72" in brown ink.
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
Cartoon for the Head of Saint James........ [JPGM]
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]
Note:
English ..... [JPGM,VP]
..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
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