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| LIVIO AGRESTI (Forlì 1508? – 1579 Rome )
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| Ornamental Frieze with Grotteschi and Cartouche
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Pen and brown ink, brown wash
93 x 249 mm
Provenance:
P. H. Lankrink (L. 2090); J. Talman
Agresti’s earliest works are in Forlì, the town in which he was born and trained. Details of his early life including his exact birth date are sketchy, but he seems to have been active as a painter in Forlì from the mid 1530s when he executed a fresco cycle in the Cappella di SS. Sacramento in the cathedral. By 1542, Agresti was in Ravenna, and shortly afterwards in Rome, where Baglione states that he worked at the Castel Sant’Angelo in the workshop of Perino del Vaga who was then the official painter to the Farnese Pope Paul III.
In the early 1540s, artistic production in Rome was just recovering from the sack of 1527. Perino and his colleagues, following in the footsteps of Raphael and Michelangelo, brought the Mannerist style to Roman painting. Agresti continued in the tradition of Mannerism, working on many projects in Rome for the rest of his life.
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