1714
Design for the Tomb of Gregory XIII in Saint Peter's
Camillo RusconiItalian, 1658 - 1728
Rusconi moved to Rome from Milan in 1686 and during the first third of the eighteenth century received some of the most important sculptural commissions to be had in his adopted city. This sheet is a study for an eighteenth-century replacement for the late-sixteenth-century tomb in Saint Peter's of Pope Gregory XIII. It shows the artist's changes of mind as he reworked the design, using pasted-on overlays of pieces of paper to alter the figures at right.
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