# Pope Receiving Visitor, in 16th-century Italy

Belisario Corenzio drew this in 1590–1646. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

From the museum's label:

> Interior, striped wall, framed picture hanging; a pope, seated on a low pedestal under a rectangular canopy, speaks to a kneeling visitor. The visitor is entreating him with a document, while two cardinals flanking the pope and two courtiers at some distance to the right look on.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

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## The work

- Date: 1590–1646
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on cream laid paper, lined
- Dimensions: 23.1 x 32.7 cm (9 1/8 x 12 7/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1938-88-7079
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Belisario Corenzio](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/belisario-corenzio), Italian

1 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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