Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)

ZOLTÁN KÁRPÁTI: After Polidoro: A Newly Identified Drawing by Livio Mehus

2 GIOVANNI BATTISTA GALESTRUZZI. VASES AND TROPHIES FROM THE FAÇADE DECORATION OF PALAZZO MILLSI. BUDAPEST, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ly contradicts this assumption. Furthermore, the painting-like character of the elaborated colour drawing, which is much more detailed than the etching, suggests that it was not made after a small, black-and-white print, but was directly modelled after the fresco. There are three drawings of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, in Florence, also made after the famous façade. One of them depicts the trophies painted above the middle window on the second floor and a ritual Roman sacrifice,

12 while the other two, similarly to the Budapest drawing, show a painted field of the frieze between the first and second floors (figs. 3 and 4).

13 The sheet showing most affinity with the Budapest drawing is the one representing the Castration of Uranus as well as the two vases and the shield flanked by them that is also present on the Budapest version. Their dimensions are almost identical

—the minimal difference is due to the fact that the Budapest sheet has been trimmed around the edges

—in addition they were made with the same technique. In both cases the grey tinted paper and the main contours were first outlined in soft black chalk, then modelled with reddish-brown and grey watercolour, and