Alessandro Maganza (1556 – 1630), St. Bubiana Refusing to Worship Idols

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Black chalk on paper;
301 by 210 mm; This “working” drawing is stylistically very similar to Maganza’s drawing, A Baptism, in the Frits Lugt Collection.  See J. Byam Shaw, The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris 1983, vol. I, p. 265, no. 256, reproduced vol. III, pl. 299

 

Avanzino Nucci (1551-1629), The Martydom of Saint Paul, The Porta San Paolo Beyond with the Arms of Pius V and the Pyramid of Caius Cestius in the background

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The Porta San Paolo Beyond with the Arms of Pius V and the Pyramid of Caius Cestius in the background

331 mm by 278 mm