Lot Essay
A primo pensiero for the ceiling compartment of Andrea Gritti reconquering Padua painted around 1578-9 in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, S. Mason Rinaldi, Palma Giovane, Milan, 1984, no. 530, fig. 20. In the painting the composition is reversed from that of the present drawing, but the strong diagonal movement and the domes of Sant Antonio are retained