An equestrian battle scene (recto); Two studies of the head of Lorenzo de' Medici, after Michelangelo (verso)

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Giovanni Battista Naldini (Florence 1537-1591)
An equestrian battle scene (recto); Two studies of the head of Lorenzo de' Medici, after Michelangelo (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto), red chalk (verso)
8 ¾ x 12 3/8 in. (22.2 x 31.5 cm)

Provenance

Anton Schmid (1904-1991), Vienna.
with Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich.

Literature

N. Strasser, Dessins italiens de la Renaissance au siècle des Lumières. Collection Jean Bonna, Geneva, 2010, no. 40, ill.

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Lot Essay

As an assistant to Vasari, Naldini took part in decorating the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Together with a group of sheets in the Uffizi and the École des Beaux-Arts (listed by Strasser, op. cit.), the dynamic war scene on the recto has been associated with the monumental Battle between Pisa and Florence at San Vincenzo, frescoed in the Salone ca. 1567. The two studies on the verso after the monument of Lorenzo de’ Medici in the New Sacristy are typical examples of the young artist’s admiration for Michelangelo.

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