Allegory of Eternity, drawing attributed to Vasari

A winged female figure sits atop a large globe, one leg crossed over the other, gazing upward toward a radiant halo. She holds a lit candle or taper in one hand, and the word ETERNITAS is inscribed on the sphere's lower curve. The drawing uses white heightening on blue-grey paper with a faint red squaring grid.

Artist

Giorgio Vasari

Date

1544/45

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on blue laid paper, squared for transfer in red ch

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2168 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray