Lot 10009: 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 35 from this work and is entitled S. Cecilia moribonda in braccio a pietosi Christiani che piangono e la asciuguno il sangue delle ferite – St. Cecilia dying in the arms of pitiful Christiani who wept and wiped the blood from her wounds.
This print was drawn by Domenico Maria Fratta after Lorenzo Garbieri
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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