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Luigi Sabatelli
Description
- Luigi Sabatelli
- Five scenes from the Book of Revelation: 'et vidi mulierem sedentem...' (17:3); 'vidi quod aperuisset agnus...' (6:1); 'et vidi alium angelum fortem...' (10:1); 'et conversus vidi septem candelabra aurea...' (1;12); et vidi, et ecce nubem candidam...' (14:14)
- Each pen and brown ink on three joined sheets, laid down on a larger sheet, the latter inscribed in Latin in pen and brown ink by the artist, with the beginning of each biblical verse
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Only one composition from the series of prints that Sabatelli made illustrating the Apocalypse is missing from the present group of drawings: 'Et ecce sedes posita erat in coelo...'.3 Two partial preliminary studies relating to that subject, both in the same direction as the engravings, are, however, in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan.4 The present five complete studies are close in size to the related etched works; since they are executed in the same direction, they are most probably modelli for the project.
1. B. Paolozzi Strozzi, Luigi Sabatelli (1772-1850), Disegni e Incisioni, exhib. cat., Florence, Uffizi, 1978, pp. 63-66, cats. 62-67, figs. 65-70
2. Ibid.,p. 63
3. Ibid., for an image of the related etching see fig. 70
4. Inv. nos. 2426 L 34 and 6125 C 817