Lot Essay
Preparatory studies for lost frescoes in the Palazzo Torfanini, Bologna. Drawings for the project, inscribed in the same way as the present study, for the fifth to the eleventh sections in the Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence were identified and published by Sylvie Béguin, Disegni inediti di Niccolò dell'Abate per Palazzo Torfanini e un pezzo d'archivio dimenticato, Prospettiva, IX-X, 1983/4, pp. 183-90, figs. 33-6. The drawings are also illustrated in M. Di Giampaolo (ed.), Disegni Emiliani del Rinascimento, Milan, 1989, nos.72-3, illustrated. Drawings after the frescoes are in the Biblioteca Communale, Reggio Emilia