# Sketch for Aurora [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GUERCINO]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Red chalk on paper, 271 x 248 mm ## Commentary This sketch is for Aurora in Guercino's ceiling painting in the Casino dell'Aurora in Rome. A series of drawings show that the artist worked intensively on the design of the composition and the individual pictorial motifs. ## Related artworks - [A Cosmographer]() - [A Donor Presented to the Virgin]() - [Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael]() - [Allegory of Painting and Sculpture]() - [Apparition of Christ to the Virgin]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Aurora]() - [Aurora]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()