Study for the Choir of San Lorenzo

The artwork

Pontormo spent the last ten years of his life painting the choir of San Lorenzo, and of those frescoes, destroyed in the eighteenth century, what survives above all are drawings like this one. It comes printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.

• Christ in glory among the angels and the creation of our first parents, Adam and Eve.
• A drawing of great breadth for a study, a library or an entrance hall.
• A gift for lovers of Florence and of the stories of lost art.

In 1546 Cosimo de' Medici entrusted Pontormo with decorating the choir of San Lorenzo, the Medici church in Florence. He worked on it almost alone, shut away behind the scaffolding, and recorded his days in a diary that has come down to us. He died in 1556 without finishing it, and it was Bronzino who completed it.

In the eighteenth century, during works in the church, the frescoes were destroyed. This sheet, with Christ in glory surrounded by angels and the creation of Adam and Eve, is one of the traces that allow us to imagine them.

The drawing is held at the Uffizi, in the Prints and Drawings Department, under number 6609 F, and is among those lent to the exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome.

In a library or a study, it brings into the home a piece of Florence that can no longer be visited. It is the gift for lovers of the stories of lost art.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)
Framed size: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: dark brown with a gold fillet, handmade, with glass