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Ceiling Design: Virgin Mary of Carmel with the Christ Child in Glory, attended by Angels,
1700s
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Passeri’s finished composition designs, or modelli, for Roman ceiling decorations are distinguished by their unusually rich tonal and chromatic range. Although this example has not been connected with a specific church, the iconography suggests a connection with the Carmelite monastic order, given the small scapulars held by the Virgin and several of the angels. Deriving from the Latin scapula (meaning “shoulder”), the scapular is a front-and-back apron worn over a monastic tunic, which was said to have been presented to the English Carmelite friar Simon Stock by the Virgin in 1251. Beginning in the fourteenth century, badge-like versions of the scapular were worn by many Catholics as a sign of devotion to the Virgin Mary.
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1700s
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- Old master and 19th century drawings, (London: Christie's, 2006). , lot 35
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2006," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 66 (2007): p. 41-74., p. 44
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)
