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

AUTHOR'S NOTE I would like to express my gratitude to Jörg Merz for generously assisting me in my work. NOTES 1 "... perché non è stanza, palazzo, giardino, nè vigna, dove non siano opere di Polidorto e di Maturino." G. Vasari, Le vite de

1 piii eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori, ed. G. Milanesi, Florence 1878-85, vol. 5, 150. 2 On Polidoro's and Maturino's Roman façades, see A. Gnann, Polidoro da Caravaggio (urn 1499-1543): Die römischen Innendekorationen, Munich 1997, 90-117; P. Leone de Castris, Polidoro da Caravaggio: Uopera compléta, Naples 2001, 108-72. 3 On the frescos of Palazzo Milesi, see Gnann 1997, 116-17; Leone de Castris 2001, 141-42, n. 94 (with previous bibliography). 4 The frescos of Palazzo Milesi, believed for a long time to be destroyed, had previously only been preserved on drawn and engraved copies and Enrico Maccari's etching made in 1876 of the whole facade, see P. Bellini, Italian Masters of the Seventeenth Century, in The Illustrated Bartsch 46 (Commentary), ed. W. L. Strauss, New York 1985, 171. Thanks to the renovation project started in 1999, all the frescos can be seen now. Vasari, ed. Milanesi, vol. 5, 149; L. Lanzi, Storiapittorica della Italia, Bassano 1795-96, vol. 2, 80-81. 6 L. Ravelli, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Bergamo 1978, 367-450. "... da rimaner confuso per la moltiplicazione e copia di si belle e capricciose fantasie, ch'uscivano loro de la mente ..." (Vasari, ed. Milanesi, vol. 5, 149). H Pen and brown ink, reddish-brown and grey watercolour, heightened with white, some traces of black chalk, on greyish prepared paper, 237 x 417 mm, inv. no. 2029; no watermark; from the Esterházy Collection (Lugt 1965). The drawing was restored by Erzsébet Mózer in 2007. 9 E. Hoffmann, Másolatok és hamisítványok [Copies and fakes], exh. cat., Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 1944, no. 34. 10 A. Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, vol. 21, Vienna 1821, nos. 3-8, 16-20, 41-46, 47-52. 11 Bartsch vol. 21, no. 47. On the engraving, see Bellini 1985, 171-72, no. 47. 12 Pen and brown ink, dark grey watercolour, heightened with white, over some traces of red and black chalks, 428 x 430 mm; Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, inv. no. 138; see M. Chiarini, "I disegno di Livio Mehus", in Livio Mehus: un pittore barocco alia corte dei Medici, 1627-1692, exh. cat., ed. M. Chiarini, Livorno 2000, no. 4 (reproduced). 13 Red chalk, grey watercolour, heightened with white, 277 x 427 mm; Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana,