DONATO CRETI (CREMONA 1671-1749 BOLOGNA)

A drapery study for the leg of the angel playing a harp at the lower left in the foreground of the altarpiece of the Virgin and Child in glory with Saint Ignatius Loyola in the Cathedral of San Pietro in Bologna (fig. 1). Creti completed the painting in 1736 (see A. Cera, La pittura bolognese del ‘700. Milan, 1994, no. 38, ill.).

Fig. 1. Donato Creti, Virgin and Child in glory with Saint Ignatius Loyola. San Pietro, Bologna.