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

4 LIVIO MEHUS. STUDY AFTER THF FAÇADE DECORATION OF PALAZZO MILESI. FLORENCE. BIBLIOTECA RICCARDIANA commissions, mostly from Florentine churches and collectors. Nevertheless, he spent his life travelling, and in his wanderings he covered most of the Italian peninsula. Baldinucci blamed the painter's restless nature for his not being able to settle in one place, but it was primarily because of his journeys to Flanders, Genoa, Bologna, Venice and Rome that he was able to draw inspiration from diverse sources. This enabled him to create his distinctly eclectic painting style, with an individual tone in seventeenth-century Florentine art. Mehus was a prolific and enthusiastic draughtsman. He tirelessly copied ancient monuments and whatever he found interesting in the Cinquecento masters, from Titian to Veronese and from Tintoretto to Polidoro. The chronology of his paintings is unclear, and the timeline of his drawings is even more problematic. Only a few of his signed drawings have survived and the attribution of his recently dated drawings relied mainly on the sheets in the Uffizi. Their origin is confirmed by their provenance, since after the painter's death Ferdinando de' Medici, his last patron, purchased them along with the forty-five paintings and numerous bozzetti left