Cesare Nebbia (1536-1614)

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Cesare Nebbia (1536-1614)

The Council of Nicea (recto); The Outlines of the same Composition (verso)

the outlines of the figures traced on the verso in red chalk with accompanying identifications 'il dubiosse nella sacra [sc]riture spirituvale si coverte tutti vescovi dottore. de leggie spirituvale covertisse il dubiosse co doci paroli diversi personi lettore della se.tesie leretiche vescovi legate patriercho e legato libro della sappie[n]se vescovi deiache enperator exe vevesco et patriarchio vescovi fillossofi et dottor del imperator nobeli d scudir del imperator la guardio Soldati del imperatoe' (verso);pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto), red chalk (verso), on three attached sheets
240 x 512mm.

来源

With R.W.P. de Vries, Dessins de maîtres anciens et modernes, Amsterdam, 1929, p. 27, as Veronese.

拍品专文

This drawing is an early study for the fresco datable 1588-9 in the Salone Sistino in the Vatican Library (fig. 1), M.L. Madonna (ed.), Roma di Sisto V, exhib. cat., Rome, 1993, p. 80, fig. 5. The iconography was devised by Federico Ranaldi and, under the direction of Nebbia and Guerra, a whole team of artists worked on the frescoes. According to Baglione the fresco of the Council of Nicea was painted by Hendrick van den Broeck, called Arrigo Fiammingo. Baglione adds that the drawings and cartoons for these decorations were provided by Nebbia himself, G. Baglione, Le Vite de'Pittori, Rome, 1642, p. 117. Other drawings for the decoration of the Salone Sistino are in the National Museum in Stockholm and in a private collection.
We are grateful to Rhoda Eitel Porter for confirming the attribution and for her help in cataloguing the drawing.