GIACOMO ZOBOLI

(Modena 1681 – Rome 1767)

STUDY OF AN APOSTLE (recto) TWO STUDIES FOR AN APOSTLE WHO CARRIES A BOOK (verso)


Black chalk, heightened with white, on greyish paper. 403 x 278 mm.
The two studies are preparatory for two of the figures of apostles, in the foreground at left, in the large altarpiece l'Assunta, painted by Zoboli, 1732-1735, in the Duomo Nuovo in Brescia. See Vv. Aa., L'immagine del sacro, Brescia 1981; cat. no. 32.