Lot 10004: Lodovico Carracci - rare engraving of Cloisters in Bologne monastery 1776
This rare copper engraving is from Il Claustro di S. Michele in Bosco di Bologna dipinto dal famoso Lodovico Carracci e da altri Eccellenti Maestri usciti Dalla Sua Scuola descritto ed illustrato da Giampietro Cavazzoni Zanotti (The Cloister of San Michele in Bosco in Bologna de ‘Olivetani Monks painted by the famous Lodovico Carracci and other excellent masters from his school described and illustrated by Giampietro Cavazzoni Zanotti). Published in Bologna 1776.
The print is plate 21 from this work and is entitled Li santi Valeriano e Tiburzio, che decapitati, sono portati a seppellire – The saints Valerian and Tiburtius, who are beheaded, are led to burial.
This print was drawn by Domenico Maria Fratta after Alessandro Albini and engraved by Giovanni Fabbri.
Size: 15in x 9.5in (38cm x 24cm)
Condition report:
Excellent but please check images for any age-related marks
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