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Lot 279

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GHISI, Giorgio. After Michelangelo

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Rome, Nicolaes Van Aelst, 1540 [1570]

Engraving, 46,5 x 57 cm, thick laid paper with watermark, signed and dated with monogram in plate bellow putti's feet "G MF 1540" (upper right corner trimmed off and re-drawn with black ink, wide margin at left, some foxing at lower edge).

Impressive engraved version of Michelangelo's famous frescoes in the pendentives of the Sistine chapel. Giorgio Ghisi (1520-1582) was one of the first printmakers to have copied Michelangelo's frescoes and made them available to a wide audience of Renaissance artists and art connoisseurs around Europe. This fragment was part of a series of 6 prints, representing Michelangelo's Prophets and Sibyls. Good impression of the 4th state (of 5).
Ref. Bartsch XV:18. - Boorsch 44.4.

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