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PASQUALE CATI
(Jesi 1550-1620 Rome)
The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple.
Pen and brown ink and wash and gray wash heightened with white on cream laid paper. 345x300 mm; 13 5/8x11 7/8 inches. Stylized dragon watermark.
The current work is likely a preliminary study for the altarpiece in the Capello di Sacramento, Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome (see Mostra Palazzo Spinola, Genoa, 1985-86, catalogue number 58). The humanist Cardinal Marcus Sitticus Altemps commissioned Cati to paint th chapel around 1588.
The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple.
Pen and brown ink and wash and gray wash heightened with white on cream laid paper. 345x300 mm; 13 5/8x11 7/8 inches. Stylized dragon watermark.
The current work is likely a preliminary study for the altarpiece in the Capello di Sacramento, Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome (see Mostra Palazzo Spinola, Genoa, 1985-86, catalogue number 58). The humanist Cardinal Marcus Sitticus Altemps commissioned Cati to paint th chapel around 1588.
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