Pope Sixtus V Kneeling in Prayer, Ventura Salimbeni (attributed to), after Giuseppe Cesari, after Prospero Bresciano, 1589
etching, h 438mm × w 314mm More details
This penetrating portrait of Pope Sixtus V is the result of a collaboration between three young artists in Rome. The sculptor Prospero Bresciano, mentioned in the print as the designer, probably made the model in clay. Giuseppe Cesari recorded this in a drawing that is now kept in the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. It is after that drawing that Salimbeni made the etching, probably his first.
