Figure of Victory after Relief on Arch of Titus

This pen and ink drawing depicts a draped female figure in mid-flight, holding a palm branch in her left hand. Her right foot rests lightly upon a sphere, a classical motif representing dominion or the celestial realm. The work focuses on the flowing movement of her robes and her balanced, suspended posture.

This drawing demonstrates the Renaissance project of recovering the visual language of antiquity, which was deeply intertwined with the Neoplatonic 'prisca theologia.' The figure of Victory atop a globe symbolizes the triumph of the spirit or divine order over the material, sublunary world.