{"id":872,"date":"2011-06-09T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T14:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-04T16:54:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T20:54:13","slug":"p-17","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/paintings\/p-17\/","title":{"rendered":"P.17 Creation of Eve &amp; Fall of Adam and Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10737\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17a-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10737\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10737\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17a--300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Fig.P.17a The Creation of Eve and the Fall of Adam and Eve\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17a--300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17a--150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17a--400x238.jpg 400w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17a-.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig.P.17a The Creation of Eve and the Fall of Adam and Eve<\/p><\/div>\n<p>1524<\/p>\n<p>Rome, S. Maria della Pace, Cesi Chapel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17a-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.P.17a<\/a>\u00a0<em>The Creation of Eve and the Fall of Adam and Eve<\/em><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17a2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.P.17a(2)<\/a>\u00a0The Cesi Chapel, from below<\/p>\n<p>Fig.P.17a(3), The Cesi Chapel, at floor level<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.P.17b<\/a>\u00a0bw\u00a0<em>The Creation of Eve and the Fall of Adam and Eve<\/em>,\u00a0before restoration<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17b2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.P.17b(2)<\/a>\u00a0<em>The Creation of Eve<\/em><em>,<\/em>\u00a0before restoration<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17c.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.P.17c<\/a>\u00a0The frescoes without the window<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17d-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.P.17d<\/a>\u00a0<em>The\u00a0<\/em><em>Creation of Eve<br \/> <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Fig.P.17e.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.P.17e<\/a>\u00a0<em>The\u00a0<\/em><em>Fall of Adam and Eve<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frescoes, on the nave fa\u00e7ade of the chapel above the cornice and in an arched area divided by an arched window above the entrance to the chapel, figures over life size.\u00a0 Dated on a painted plaque decorated with discs and a mask over the window: <em>A\u2022S\u2022M\u2022D XXIIII<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[The frescoes appear very damaged by cracking and flaking and much restored (their &#8220;horrible state&#8221; already noted in F. Titi, <em>Descrizione delle pitture, sculture e architectture esposte al publico di Roma<\/em>, Rome, 1763, 414, as in Franklin, 1994, 283, n. 41).\u00a0 Nevertheless, the figures show in many details kinds of drawing and modeling that are characteristic of Rosso.\u00a0 According to Kusenberg, 1931, 188, n. 64, they were restored in April 1927 by Professor Papini whose brushwork, or that of some other restorer, is visible throughout.\u00a0 The genitals of Adam in the <em>Fall<\/em> have disappeared.\u00a0 In April 1985 the frescoes looked very chalky especially above the window at the top right of the left fresco making it impossible to judge the underlying condition of the paintings.]<\/p>\n<p>[The flesh tones are dark and reddish brown.\u00a0 God&#8217;s robe in the <em>Creation<\/em> is pinkish.\u00a0 There are traces of a blue sky behind him, and traces of green at the bottom of this fresco.\u00a0 Adam in the <em>Fall<\/em> has reddish blond hair. There are dark leaves in the uppermost part of this fresco.]<\/p>\n<p>April 2014: Since Franklin, 1994, the frescoes have been fully cleaned and restored. I know them in their new and careful restoration only from several color photographs that have appeared on the web, one of which, taken from far below, is dated December 29, 2012. The tonality of the frescoes is now blond and the figures wholly intact. Adam&#8217;s genitals in the\u00a0<em>Fall<\/em>\u00a0have reappeared within the slightly darkened area of his groin. Only the top of the head of God-the-Father may be damaged and his right hand above the flying drapery at the top of the fresco is perhaps much missing. The blue of the sky has almost entirely disappeared and as well as most of the foliage in both scenes<em>. <\/em>It is difficult to see the large branches of the tree in the right fresco and to distinguish the rocky terrain upon which Adam sleeps in the the\u00a0<em>Creation of Eve.\u00a0<\/em>But it can now be seen that Eve&#8217;s hair in the <i>Fall<\/i>\u00a0is elaborately waved and braided as in Rosso&#8217;s drawing at Harvard (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/11\/D.20-bw-Profile-Head-of-a-Woman-Harvard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.D.20<\/a>). Clearly visible now also are the toes of Adam overlapping the painted rounded molding along the bottom of both scenes. His right hand in the right fresco no longer clearly grips the branch of the tree and his left hand is so damaged to obscure just what it is doing although its position next to Eve&#8217;s right hand about to take the piece of fruit from Eve is clear.<\/p>\n<p>DOCUMENTS: The contractual note of 26 April 1524 for these frescoes, and the record of three payments, the first of that date, the other two of 11 June and 3 October 1524, are preserved in A. S. F., Corporazioni religiose soppresse, 20 (S. Orsola detto la SS.ma Annunziata di Arezzo), 18 (Filza seconda di memorie della venerabile Compagnia della SS.ma Annunziata, 1380\u20131620), folios 99<sup>r<\/sup> and 106<sup>v<\/sup>:<\/p>\n<p>106<sup>v<\/sup>: Allogagione da Messer &#8220;Antonio da San Gallo<\/p>\n<p>99<sup>r<\/sup>:\u00a0 In the margin: &#8220;1524: Allogagione per fare una Cappella&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(In Antonio da Sangallo the Younger&#8217;s hand:) &#8220;Io Antonio sa Sangallo i&#8217;nome di mess.\u00a0 Agniolo da Ciessi aluogo a fare una capella i&#8217;nella Pacie a maestro Giovanbatista alias Rosso di pittura a chanto a quella fatta di Austino Gisi cio\u00e8 la facciata e un\u2019a[n]cona a olio in tavola e altre pitture e adornamenti di Capella di stuchi, da pagare sechondo per che me Antonio da Sangallo sopraschritto sar\u00e0 judichato.\u00a0 E per questo \u00f2 fatto la presente di mia propria mano, questo d\u00ec 26 d&#8217;aprile 1524, a per chominciare ditta opera io Antonio sopra schritto ho pagati questo d\u00ec ducati venti cinque d&#8217;oro [cancelled: &#8220;in oro di Camera del chonio&#8221;] a giulii 10 per duchato e chos\u00ec lui la sottoschriver\u00e0 di sua mano e io ci schriverr\u00f2 tucti li danari che llui risciever\u00e0 da me o da altri per me a ditto conto.\u00a0 E ttutto ditto lavoro se \u00e0 a da fare sechondo che per me Antonio sopra schritto sar\u00e0 ordinato.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(In Rosso&#8217;s hand:) &#8220;Io Rosso pictore sopra scripto son contento e confesso quanto per questa si contiene e in fede ho facto questi di mia mano propria questo d\u00ec decto&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(In Antonio&#8217;s hand:) &#8220;Ane [\u00e0 ne] auto a questo chonto li sopra schritti duchati venti cinque d&#8217;oro [cancelled: &#8220;in oro&#8221;] questo di sopraschritto da me Antonio sopraschritto, per arra e parte di pagamento di giulii cio\u00e8 &#8230; duc. 25 b.____.&#8221; [&#8220;b&#8221; =\u00a0 &#8220;Bolognini&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>(In Francesco da Sangallo&#8217;s hand:) &#8220;E pi\u00f9 \u00e0&#8217;uto in dua partite inn una otto duchati d&#8217;oro di chamera e inn una cinque in schudi di sole: sono in tutto a dua le vollte duchati tredici d&#8217;oro di chamera, cio\u00e8 &#8230; duc. 13 b ____.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;o schritto io Franco da Sangallo ogi questo d\u00ec 11 di g[i]ugnio 1524.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;E pi\u00f9 \u00e0&#8217;uto insino ad\u00ec 3 d&#8217;ottobre 1524 duchati digianove e giuli quatro a giuli dieci per duchato, chome apare di suo mano alla schritta abiano di suo, sono &#8230; duc. b. 40.&#8221;<a href=\"#endref1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PREPARATORY DRAWING: Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, no. D4870, <em>Study for the Figure of Eve in the &#8220;Fall of Adam and Eve&#8221;<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/drawings\/d10-seated-nude-woman\">Fig.D.10<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>LITERATURE:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Vasari, 1550, 800 (Vasari-Ricci, IV, 246), mentions this work first in his account of Rosso&#8217;s activity in Rome: &#8220;Quivi fece nella Pace sopra le cose di Raffaello una opra, della quale non dipinse mai peggio a suoi giorni: ne posso imaginare onde cio procedesse: se non ch&#8217;e egli gonfio di vana gloria di se stesso, niente stimava le cose d&#8217;altri: perche gli avvenne che cio poco apprezzando, la sua fu poi meno stimata.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vasari, 1568, II, 207 (Vasari-Milanesi, V, 161\u2013162), changed after &#8220;procedesse&#8221; to read: &#8220;senon da questo, che non pure in lui, ma si \u00e8 venuto anco in multi altri.\u00a0 E questo (il che pare cosa mirabile, e occulta di natura) \u00e8 che chi muta paese, \u00f2 luogo, pare che muti natura, virtu, costumi, e habito di persona, in tanto, che tallora non pare quel medesimo, ma un&#8217;altro, e tutto stordito, e stupefatto.\u00a0 Il che pot\u00e8 intervenire al Rosso nell&#8217;aria di Roma, e per le stupende cose, che egli vi vide d&#8217;Architettura, e Scultura, e per le pitture, e statue di Michelangolo, che forte lo cavarono di se.\u00a0 Lequali cose fecero anco fuggire, senza lasciar loro alcuna cosa operare in Roma, fra Bartolomeo di s. Marco, e Andrea del Sarto.\u00a0 Tutta via, qualunche si fusse di cio la cagione, il Rosso non fece mai peggio; e da vantaggio \u00e8 quest&#8217;opera \u00e8 paragone di quelle di Raffaello da Urbino.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Inferred in the &#8220;Life&#8221; of Salviati, Vasari-Milanesi, VII, 14.<\/p>\n<p>Cellini, 1558\u20131565 (Cellini-Ferrero, 1971, 293) records in his <em>Autobiography<\/em>, after saying that because Rosso spoke ill of Raphael, his disciples wished to kill him: &#8220;Ancora per aver detto male di maestro Antonio da Sangallo, molto eccellente architettore, gli fete torre un&#8217;opera che lui gli aveva fatto avere da Messer Agnol de Cesi; dipoi cominci\u00f2 [Rosso] tanto a far contro a di lui, che egli [Antonio] l&#8217;aveva condotto a morirsi di fame.&#8221;\u00a0 This must refer to the Cesi Chapel commission.<\/p>\n<p>Titi, <em>Studio di pittura&#8230;nelle chiese di Roma<\/em>, 1674, 453\u2013454, following Vasari, as above Raphael&#8217;s frescoes, and as &#8220;poco buono, non hauendo mai dipinto peggio \u00e0 suoi giorni.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Titi, 1686, 385, as above Raphael&#8217;s fresco, and as &#8220;opera benche d&#8217;un gran Virtuoso poco buona, e di maniera assai diversa dall&#8217;altra sua solita.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Titi, <em>Nuovo Studio&#8230;<\/em>, Rome, 1721 (reprint, Bologna, 1974), 440, as above Raphael&#8217;s pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Milanesi, in Vasari-Milanesi, V, 1881, 162, n. 1, gives notice of the document of 26 April 1524 and that the commission was made in the name of Cesi by Antonio da Sangallo.<\/p>\n<p>Goldschmidt, 1911, 22, as Rosso&#8217;s first sure Roman work; he tends to believe Vasari&#8217;s criticism that Rosso&#8217;s art was perverted by his study of the Sistine Ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Voss, 1920, 186.<\/p>\n<p>U. Pasque, in <em>Di Bartolomeo Della Gatta&#8230;<\/em>, Arezzo, 1926, 36, n. 3, partially publishes the document of 26 April 1524 but wrongly as related to SS. Annunziata, Arezzo (from Hirst, 1964, 121, n. 6).<\/p>\n<p>Colnaghi, 1928, 236, repeats Milanesi.<\/p>\n<p>Antal, [1928\u201329] 1966, 55, 57, 84.<\/p>\n<p>Kusenberg, 1931, 25\u201326, 188, ns. 59\u201360, 64, 129, does not believe Cellini&#8217;s story, and agrees with Vasari that they are Rosso&#8217;s worst works.\u00a0 He sees the sleeping Adam as influenced by Michelangelo&#8217;s dead Holofernes, and the <em>Fall<\/em> as recalling Michelangelo&#8217;s scene of the same subject.\u00a0 The serpent&#8217;s body he sees as influential on a figure in Bronzino&#8217;s <em>Martyrdom of St. Lawrence<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Venturi, IX, 5, 1932, 195, 231, as commissioned in 1524.<\/p>\n<p>Kusenberg, 1935, 62.<\/p>\n<p>Becherucci, 1944, 29, 55, as showing Rosso&#8217;s assumption of Roman culture in the gigantism of Michelangelo and the easy and rich language of Raphael&#8217;s followers.<\/p>\n<p>Freedberg, 1950, 65, the <em>Creation<\/em> as influential on a drawing by Parmigianino in the British Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Barocchi, 1950, 60\u201361, 246, Figs. 38\u201339, speaks of precise recollections of the Sistine Ceiling, the <em>Creation of Eve<\/em> recalling Michelangelo&#8217;s scene, the figure of Adam, his Holofernes.<\/p>\n<p>Becherucci, [1958] 1964, 457, as recalling Parmigianino.<\/p>\n<p>Sinibaldi, 1960\u20131961, 34, as indicating an artistic crisis resulting from the sight of the Sistine Ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Urban, 1961, 215, 221, frescoes and contracts mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Brugnoli, 1962, 341\u2013342, the Adam influenced by the Holofernes and by Michelangelo&#8217;s <em>Dying Slave<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Berenson, 1963, 195.<\/p>\n<p>Frommel, 1963, 144\u2013148, publishes the document of 1524; he also publishes a document of 1515 that indicates that the chapel was dedicated to the Annunciation.<\/p>\n<p>Hirst, 1964, 120\u2013122, publishes the document given above, and points out that Rosso was to paint not only frescoes on the <em>facciata<\/em>, implying probably the lunette and spandrel, but also the chapel&#8217;s altarpiece.\u00a0 He also mentions the reference to stucco in the document.\u00a0 As in 1529, a document indicates that the chapel was dedicated to the Annunciation. Hirst believes that Rosso&#8217;s altarpiece would have been of this subject although a drawing of his of the Virgin Annunciate, Uffizi 6492F [<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/drawings\/d11-seated-woman-in-niche\">D.11<\/a>], would reflect another scheme and placement of this subject.\u00a0 But he points out that the light in the drawing is at odds with that in the frescoes.\u00a0 Hirst also suggests that the project was unfinished because of a quarrel between Rosso and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, as indicated by Cellini&#8217;s story.\u00a0 The <em>Creation<\/em> he sees as related to Rosso&#8217;s <em>Moses<\/em> and <em>Eliezer<\/em> pictures with the sleeping Adam related to the sleeping figure in the latter.\u00a0 In the <em>Fall<\/em>, related to Michelangelo&#8217;s scene, but reversed, he detects &#8220;Rosso already moving towards the style of poised refinement which he and Roman contemporaries evolved in the brief period prior to 1527.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brugnoli&#8217;s letter and Hirst&#8217;s response in <em>BM<\/em>, CVI, 1964, 290.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll, 1964 (1976), I, Bk. I, 103\u2013105, 109, BK. II, 132\u2013133, P.19, II, BK. III, Figs. 32\u201333a.<\/p>\n<p>Dezzi Bardeschi, 1964, 88, 99, published the document of 1524 thinking it was related to the S. Maria delle Lagrime commission (see Preface to D.31\u2013D.34).<\/p>\n<p>Borea, 1965, as indicating a crisis in Rosso&#8217;s style as the result of his knowledge of the Sistine Ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Freedberg, 1966, 583.<\/p>\n<p>Giorgio Falcidia, <em>Tesori d&#8217;arte cristiana. 100 chiese in europa, 71, Rome, S. Maria della Pace<\/em>, Bologna, 8 July 1967, 286, Fig. 2, color reproduction of the <em>Creation<\/em>, 287, Fig. 3, color reproduction of the fa\u00e7ade of the chapel showing the <em>Fall<\/em>, 298.<\/p>\n<p>Marabottini, 1969, I, 92, 262, no. 89, mentions the effect of Roman classicism on these frescoes.<\/p>\n<p>Fagiolo Dell&#8217;Arco, 1970, 92, 215, n. 6, mentions the relation between Rosso and Parmigianino and the patronage of them by Cesi.<\/p>\n<p>Freedberg, 1971, 30, as influenced by the Sistine Ceiling, by Sebastiano del Piombo, and by Raphael.<\/p>\n<p>Nyholm, 1977, 142, as not meriting Vasari&#8217;s criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Shearman, 1980, 9.<\/p>\n<p>Chastel, 1983, 163\u2013164, states that the <em>Creation<\/em> contains contortions not found in the <em>Fall<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Darragon, 1983, 24, 38, 39, Fig. 14, mentions Rosso&#8217;s fight with Antonio da Sangallo; wrongly he thinks that Adam is brandishing a club and hence compares him with Hercules.<\/p>\n<p>Wilmes, 1985, 78.<\/p>\n<p>A. Bacci and D. Benati, in <em>Pittura. Cinquecento<\/em>, 1987, II, thought Rosso may have been prevented from executing the altarpiece for this chapel because of the sack of 1527.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll, 1987, 10, 21\u201322, 23, 24, 66\u201368, under no.6, with Fig.<\/p>\n<p>Leone de Castris, 1988, 40.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin, 1988, 326, under No.6, indicates that a 15 week gap between Rosso&#8217;s second and third installments is not unusual.<\/p>\n<p>Caron, 1988, 370\u2013371, 372, Fig. 8 (<em>Creation of Eve<\/em>) commented on the influence of Raphael and Michelangelo.<\/p>\n<p>Ciardi and Mugnaini, 1991, 10, 29, 110\u2013111, 150 with 2 Figs., as more influence by Raphael of the Farnesina than Michelangelo of the Sistine Chapel.<\/p>\n<p>Mortari, 1992, 40, 99, n. 66, a new kind of project and the precedent for Salviati at the Cancelleria.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin, 1994, 121, 124\u2013133, 144, 155, 170, 188, 230, 246, 265, 305\u2013306. Appendix E, DOCUMENT 1, 316, Pls. 90\u201392, as likely that Rosso was promised the commission before he left Florence and that it determined his departure, with Antonio da Sangallo, crucial to the commission and in a sense Rosso&#8217;s patron for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Marchetti Letta, 1994,73.<\/p>\n<p>Brilli, 1994, 26.<\/p>\n<p>Costamagna, 1994, 64, notes their Michelangelism.<\/p>\n<p>Falciani, in Gnocchi and Falciani, 1994, 16.<\/p>\n<p>Burresi, in <em>Rosso e Volterra<\/em>, 1994, 145, under no. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Ciardi, 1994, 51, iconographically related to the Sistine Ceiling but opposed to Michelangelo&#8217;s super dimensional heroic manner, and showing especially in the <em>Creation of Eve<\/em> a dialectic interpretation of Raphael&#8217;s two figures of Psyche at the Farnesina filtered through Perino.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The contract of 25 April 1524 calls for Rosso to paint &#8220;la facciata&#8221; of the Cesi Chapel as well as to execute &#8220;un\u2019a[n]cona a olio in tavola e altre pitture e adornamenti di capella di stuchi.&#8221;\u00a0 After the initial payment on the day of the contract there were two more on 11 June and 3 October 1524.\u00a0 We know from Cellini that Rosso was in Rome on 24 June 1524 but that sometime in June or shortly thereafter he was staying in Cerverteri to escape the plague in Rome (see Cellini-Ferrero, 1971, 293).\u00a0 Hence, perhaps, the skip in payments from June to October.\u00a0 One might suppose that the two frescoes were executed between late April and late June and that the early October payment indicates a resumption of work on the Cesi Chapel project.\u00a0 Sometime thereafter work stopped because, it may be concluded from what Cellini reports, of the argument that Rosso had with Antonio da Sangallo the Younger who had in the name of Agnolo Cesi originally obtained Rosso for this project.\u00a0 (On the various misattributions of Rosso&#8217;s frescoes and the confusion of them especially with Raphael&#8217;s nearby frescoes (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2011\/06\/Cesi-Chapel-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.Cesi Chapel<\/a>), see Franklin, 1994, 126, 283, ns. 30\u201334.)<\/p>\n<p>Hirst&#8217;s suggestion that Rosso&#8217;s <em>Seated Woman in Niche<\/em> in the Uffizi (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/drawings\/d11-seated-woman-in-niche\">D.11<\/a>) is a drawing for the <em>Virgin Annunciate<\/em> that would have been used for another part of this chapel may well be correct.\u00a0 Its style is so similar to that of the frescoes that it is probable that they were all designed at the same time, possibly before the frescoes were executed, when the decoration of the entire fa\u00e7ade of this chapel was first being considered.\u00a0 The <em>Virgin Annunciate<\/em> could have been placed on the front of the left pier, that has quite the right dimensions for the image of the drawing, across from an Angel Annunciate also in a niche on the right pier.\u00a0 Although the chapel eventually received an altarpiece by Marcello Venusti of the <em>Annunciation<\/em>,<a href=\"#endref2\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a> it is not necessary to assume, as Hirst does, that Rosso would have planned an altarpiece of this subject or at least planned one from the very beginning, however appropriate it might seem that he should have.\u00a0 An <em>Annunciation<\/em> on the fa\u00e7ade would have been sufficient to correspond to the dedication of the chapel to the Annunciation (see Frommel above).\u00a0 However, as Hirst points out, the light in the drawing is at odds with that in the frescoes that were executed.\u00a0 This is a major discrepancy.\u00a0 If the drawing was intended for this chapel and for a fresco on its fa\u00e7ade then one would have to recognize its lighting as a mistake that Rosso would later have changed, provided of course that he would have followed through with the scheme of which it might have been a part.\u00a0 However, it is also just possible that the figure represents an image that was to be realized as sculpture in stucco and that the light in the drawing pertains only to the conception of the image in the drawing and not to the direction of the light in the church, which would not have been constant, nor to the fixed light in the frescoes that would be painted above it.\u00a0 The eventual decoration of the fa\u00e7ade spandrels and piers of this chapel entirely with sculpture may lend some support to the possibility that such a conception goes back to Rosso&#8217;s project with its &#8220;adornamenti&#8230;di stuchi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, there is another possibility.\u00a0 The <em>Virgin Annunciate<\/em> could have been intended to occupy the place where Rosso actually painted the <em>Creation of Eve<\/em>, with the <em>Angel Annunciate<\/em> across from, it where he painted the <em>Fall<\/em>.\u00a0 In a drawing by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger for the fa\u00e7ade of the chapel he shows an angel, very possibly of the Annunciation, in the space of the <em>Fall<\/em>.<a href=\"#endref3\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a> But here, too, the light in the drawing seems not right for a fresco as the left side of the top of the fa\u00e7ade of the chapel abuts the arch that crosses the nave of the church from which direction no light falls directly.\u00a0 It could, of course, be suggested here again that stucco could have been used here.<a href=\"#endref4\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p><a name=\"endref1\"><\/a><sup>1<\/sup>On the publication of this document by Pasque, 1926, Frommel, 1963, Hirst, 1964, Dezzi Bardeschi, 1964, and Franklin, 1994, see LITERATURE below.\u00a0 Hirst commented that the archival location of this document with the material from the Compagnia of SS. Annunziata of Arezzo suggests that it was Rosso&#8217;s copy left behind when he fled this town in 1529.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"endref2\"><\/a><sup>2<\/sup> See Johannes Wilde, &#8220;<em>Cartonetti<\/em> by Michelangelo,&#8221; <em>BM<\/em>, CI, 1959, 374\u2013381.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"endref3\"><\/a><sup>3<\/sup> Uffizi 703A <em>recto<\/em>, see Urban, 1961, 223, Fig. 150.\u00a0 Although this drawing has been connected to the 1529 renewal of Antonio da Sangallo&#8217;s contract for his work on this chapel (see Giovannoni, 1959, 377\u2013378, and Urban, 1961, 221\u2013222), it is interesting that he shows an angel in the place of Rosso&#8217;s fresco.\u00a0 But Rosso&#8217;s contract and dated frescoes show that a large plan for the chapel was already projected and work on it begun as early as 1524.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"endref4\"><\/a><sup>4<\/sup> Franklin, 1994, 125, that beneath the executed frescoes Rosso would likely have painted four prophets, following the model of Raphael in the adjacent Chigi Chapel, where, however, the prophets are at the top of the chapel fa\u00e7ade flanking the window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1524 Rome, S. Maria della Pace, Cesi Chapel. 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