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etching

engraving

Black ink and white gouache on blue-gray prepared antique laid paper

Dimensions
19.2 x 14 cm (7 9/16 x 5 1/2 in.)

"This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval…

"Together with two other female saints, these panels were originally stacked in two groups of three, one above the other, to form the piers flanking the main panels of an altarpiece. By this date Giovanni di Paolo’s work must have begun to seem out…

"Martyred under Emperor Decius (ruled 249–51 A.D.), Saint Reparata was a patron saint of Florence, for whom its cathedral was named. This exquisitely painted panel is from the high altarpiece of the cathedral (the main panels are now in the Uffizi ,…

Medium: Engraving

Dimensions: 3-1/4 x 1-7/8 in. (8.3 x 4.8 cm)

Inscription: Lettered monogram lower right: 'MAF'

Medium: Red chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions: 6 x 4 7/16in. (15.3 x 11.3cm)
Annotated on paper support on verso, in blue crayon, "It5 [or s] - A13" along upper left border; below, "Moretto da Brescia"; at center, in graphite,…