Portrait of Ghirlandaio, Rafael Coronel

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Rafael Coronel, Portrait of Ghirlandaio
Rafael Coronel, Portrait of Ghirlandaio
Rafael Coronel
Portrait of Ghirlandaio
1969
Rafael Coronel
born 1932
Portrait of Ghirlandaio, 1969
Where object was made: Mexico
Material/technique: pastel; graphite; wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 73.5 x 58.2 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 28 15/16 x 22 15/16 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 36 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 1 1/4 in
Weight (Weight): 13 lbs
Credit line: Gift of Elizabeth Schultz
Accession number: 2004.0179
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: “Selecciones: Mexican Art from the Collection,” Nov-2005, Kate Meyer The Spencer Museum is pleased to present four new gifts from Elizabeth Schultz, all created by Mexican artist Rafael Coronel in the 1960s. Coronel’s paintings and drawings are shown here alongside highlights from the museum’s collection of twentieth-century Mexican works on paper. This display invites the viewer to consider Coronel’s connections to works by other Mexican artists. Can affinities be found between Coronel’s imagery and the iconography employed by his contemporaries and predecessors? Or, does Coronel’s modernism stand out, perhaps suggesting global, rather than national, comparisons? Coronel often looked to his artistic predecessors’ treatment of humanity, such as Michelangelo, El Greco, Rembrandt and Goya. In this drawing he depicts the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. Ghirlandaio is best known for his ability to relay a clear narrative in his frescos through a focus on the individual. Coronel’s drawing, with its emphasis on the artist’s head and hands, suggests the importance of Ghirlandaio’s thoughts and the means by which he expressed those thoughts.