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Lot 57
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Follower of Corrado Giaquinto

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 EUR
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Description

  • Corrado Giaquinto
  • The Apparition of the Cross
  • oil on canvas

Catalogue Note

This is an 18th century copy after Corrado Giaquinto's original canvas, which formed part of the ceiling decoration of a larger scheme by Giaquinto for the Basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome. Giaquinto's bozzetto for which is conserved in the City Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri (see P. Amato, Corrado Giaquinto (1703-1766), Molfetta 1985, pp. 100-3, reproduced fig. 3).