Saint Benedict: a poor peasant, enslaved by Zalla, a Goth brigand, is brought before the saint, who frees him from his restraints. Engraving by G. Giovannini after L. Garbieri.

  • Garbieri, Lorenzo, 1580-1654.
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1 print

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Garbieri inv. e dipin. Giac. Giovannini del. e scol.

References note

Giampietro Zanotti, Il claustro di San Michele in Bosco di Bologna de' monaci Olivetani: dipinto dal famoso Lodovico Carracci e da altri eccellenti maestri usciti dalla sua scuola, In Bologna : Impresso nelle stampe dalla Volpe, 1776, pp. 101-102
Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, vol.19, Vienna 1819, p. 427, Giovannini no. 31 (no. 11 in the series) (as "Des cavaliers visitant St Benoît dans la solitude")

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Wellcome Collection 3652i

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After one of the frescoes (subsequently decayed) in the cloister of the convent of San Michele in Bosco, Bologna

Notes

One print in a set of prints by Giovannini after a series of paintings about the life of St. Benedict by Lodovico Carracci and his pupils in the cloister of the monastery of S. Michele al Bosco at Bologna: Bartsch, loc. cit.

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