Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice with the Spinola Arms. Artist: Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) (Italian, Genoa 1639-1709 Rome). Dimensions: 7-13/16 x 5-5/16 in. (19.9 x 13.5 cm). Date: 1639-1709.Once owned by the distinguished French collector Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), this highly finished drawing appears in the 1775-76 sale catalogue of his collection. It has been identified as preparatory for the frontispiece of "Il Corradino," a libretto for a tragedy set in medieval Naples, written by Antonio Caraccio (1630-1702), and published in Rome in 1694 (see Rome 1994, and Bibliography). The fasces held by a cherub at the upper right and the scales are attributes of Justice, who prominently bears a shield with the arms of the Spinola, among Genoa's oldest patrician families. "Il Corradino" was dedicated to Giovanni Battista Spinola, then governor of Rome. The seated female figure holding an array of wind instruments may personify Euterpe, the Muse of lyric poetry a

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Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice with the Spinola Arms. Artist: Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) (Italian, Genoa 1639-1709 Rome). Dimensions: 7-13/16 x 5-5/16 in. (19.9 x 13.5 cm). Date: 1639-1709.Once owned by the distinguished French collector Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), this highly finished drawing appears in the 1775-76 sale catalogue of his collection. It has been identified as preparatory for the frontispiece of "Il Corradino," a libretto for a tragedy set in medieval Naples, written by Antonio Caraccio (1630-1702), and published in Rome in 1694 (see Rome 1994, and Bibliography). The fasces held by a cherub at the upper right and the scales are attributes of Justice, who prominently bears a shield with the arms of the Spinola, among Genoa's oldest patrician families. "Il Corradino" was dedicated to Giovanni Battista Spinola, then governor of Rome. The seated female figure holding an array of wind instruments may personify Euterpe, the Muse of lyric poetry a

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