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Lodovico Carracci - 2 engravings from St. Michele Bologna 1776

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Start price: £80

Estimated price: £200 - £400

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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.

Plate 22 from this work is entitled S. Cecilia, che gitta in terra l’inutile suo Organetto (S. Cecilia throws her useless organetto to the ground). Drawn by Domenico Maria Fratta after Alessandro Albini and engraved by Giovanni Fabbri.

Plate 27 is entitled Le monache morte che escono dalla sepoltura (The dead nuns coming out of the burial). Drawn by Domenico Maria Fratta after Lucio Massari and engraved by Giovanni Fabbri.

Size(cm): Page 38 x 26, Platemark 32 x 19

Condition: Some spotting in margins – please inspect images carefully


Some spotting in margins - please inspect images carefully