# Study for the Age of Silver

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/study-for-the-age-of-silver-r1fa036a3eeab6c>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [CORTONA, Pietro da](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Red and black pencil on waxed paper, 350 x 246 mm

## Commentary

The four scenes of the Age of Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron painted by Pietro da Cortona for the Medici in 1637 and 1641 in the Stanza della Stufa in the Pitti Palace, together form the first great masterpiece of Baroque painting. Numerous drawings by Pietro for the frescoes and plasterwork in Pitti Palace exist including this sketch.

## Related artworks

- [Age of Bronze](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/age-of-bronze-rb15132e1668261>)
- [Age of Iron](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/age-of-iron-rce1ef2549488bc>)
- [Apotheose of Aeneas \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/apotheose-of-aeneas-detail-r0fdaa34d343548>)
- [Augustus and the Sibyl](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/augustus-and-the-sibyl-r248515e0fd1d33>)
- [Ceiling fresco in the Sala di Saturno](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-fresco-in-the-sala-di-saturno-r14484cd2ab2670>)
- [Ceiling of the Galleria Pamphilj](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-of-the-galleria-pamphilj-rc29414c81472d8>)
- [Ceiling painting \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-detail-r6e9d7cea8a94e3>)
- [Ceiling painting \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-detail-r8df6687fb1cd5d>)
- [Ceiling painting \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-detail-red3c2ed57464ba>)
- [Ceiling painting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-r19f61c7937d941>)
- [Ceiling painting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-r3a702507be60f3>)
- [Ceiling painting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortona-pietro-da-rc7a3e7228c7698/ceiling-painting-r3b155ff05a5a34>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)