5403 - Barbiere, Domenico del

Barbiere, Domenico del The Angels Carry the Instruments of the Passion of Christ. Half-round copperplate engraving after Michelangelo Buonarroti. 19.4 x 44.5 cm. Circa 1555. B. XVI, p. 357, 3, A. Alberti (La fortuna di Michelangelo nelle stampe del cinquecento, Milan 2015) 195. Mark: Crowned coat of arms with a fleur-de-lis. This copperplate engraving depicts the upper right lunette of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, inverted. Excellent print, with the plate edge at the bottom, cut just inside it at the top, and approximately 3.5 cm cut into the image and text on both the right and left sides. Smoothed vertical center fold, delicate dry creases on the reverse, soiled, small tear in the margin at the top center, further tiny marginal glazes; lower corner with a faint diagonal crease and a small wormhole; thin paper areas frayed at the lower right; isolated tiny pinholes; on the reverse, traces of glue and rust spots; other minor conservation flaws; otherwise in good overall condition. Accompanied by Giulio Bonasone’s “Cloelia Crossing the Tiber on Horseback” (B. 83), by Adamo Scultori’s “Hercules at the Crossroads” (B. 26), and by Giacomo Franco, the etching “Viaggio fatto dal Sumo Pontefice Clemente Ottavo da Roma a Ferrara l’anno 1598.” - Please request condition reports for the lots, as the condition is listed in the catalog only in exceptional cases. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.