Cardinal Albani is offered the Tiara
1700
Giuseppe Passeri’s dynamic sketch bursts with Baroque energy, framing a divine moment within an elaborate architectural border. Created in 1700, it celebrates the election of Cardinal Albani as Pope Clement XI, with the Holy Spirit depicted as a glowing dove showering light upon the scene. The artist used white highlights to make the heavenly figures pop against the warm, brownish paper, giving the whole composition a sense of swirling motion and spiritual drama. It feels less like a finished painting and more like a brainstorm for a grand monument, full of kneeling figures and trumpeting angels.
- Technique
- ink and wash with white heightening
- Material
- paper
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