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Saint John the Baptist appears to Filippo. Filippo gives alms to an angel appearing as a pilgrim

Saint John the Baptist appears to Filippo. Filippo gives alms to an angel appearing as a pilgrim

5211A
Artist
Luca Ciamberlano (1570-1641)
Title
Saint John the Baptist appears to Filippo. Filippo gives alms to an angel appearing as a pilgrim
Date
1611
Medium
Engraving. After Guido Reni (1575-1642). Plate 7/45 of a Life of Saint Philip Neri. Forty-one of these plates are by Luca Ciamberlano and four (including an unnumbered title plate) by Christan Sas (b. 1648 and active in 1660). The plates by Ciamberlano follow designs by Reni, Ciamberlano himself, and possibly others. The plates by Sas are all after Jacques Stella (1596-1657). This set of plates was published, together with a 45th numbered engraving by Girolamo Frezza (1659-1741) after Pietro Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755), in Pietro Giacomo Bacci C.O. (1575-1656) Vita di S. Filippo Neri Fiorentino. Rome: appresso il Bernabò e Lazzarini, 1745 (this is a later edition of a book first published in the 1620s in connection with the canonization of Neri). Our image is drawn from this 1745 edition.
Photo Source
Getty Resarch Institute / Hathi Trust Digital Library / Almerindo Ojeda
Note
An account book kept by the artist identifies Reni as the designer of twenty-four of the Ciamberlano engravings, and Ciamberlano himself as the designer of three. It also dates precisely the Ciamberlano plates. See Melasecchi, Olga & Pepper, D. Stephen, "Guido Reni, Luca Ciamberlano and the Oratorians: Their relationship clarified." The Burlington Magazine 140: 596-603.
Item
5211A
Correspondences
Archive: 5211A/5211B
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Archive: 5211A/5211B
Archive: 5211A/6515B
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