Vatican Swiss Guard

[Casper Friedrich]

A week latter, better lighting:

[John Alberts]

Timely indeed!  Spurring me to look into this set!  Nice work thus far

[Hannibal]

Good start for the painting.
can you take yur next pictures, not with a zenithal light above the flat which renders it very dark, in the shadow, but from your back.  Lights and shadows are to be painted on the flat, not by the surrounding light... Sowe can appreciate better the details, faces, hands, ....

[Casper Friedrich]

Somewhat current topic. Still WIP, the figures are of course from Mohr's set Pope Julius II and Apollo Belvedere. It was in fact this Pope who in 1506 established the Papal Swiss Guard.
I have earlier on this site told about my trip to Rome before Covid-19. I didn't have the opportunity to visit the Vatican, as my now decesead maternal uncle, had an accident and was taken to Policlinico Umberto I.