Oct 29, 2019 - Sale 2522

Sale 2522 - Lot 62

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
CHERUBINO ALBERTI (after Michelangelo)
An Angel Throwing the Damned into the Fires.

Engraving, 1580. 331x168 mm; 13 1/8x6 3/4 inches, narrow margins. A very good impression with strong contrasts.

Alberti (1553-1615) based this engraving on a part of Michelangelo's (1475-1564) Last Judgment fresco, 1536-41, in the Sistine Chapel, Rome. Bartsch 70.