Executioner Holding Up a Severed Head. Artist: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, Venice 1682-1754 Venice). Dimensions: 15-15/16 x 10-1/2 in. (40.5 x 26.7 cm). Date: 1682-1754.This drawing of an executioner holding up a head was possibly conceived by Piazzetta for his paiting with "The Martyrdom of Saint Paul" (Private collection, Italy), where a similar mustachioed executioner appears in a slightly different pose. Ugo Ruggeri was the first to point out that the figure in this drawing was copied in a small painting executed by the workshop of Piazzetta, "The Martyrdom of Saint Eurosia", in the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice (Ruggeri 1973). The painting is generally ascribed to the Venetian painter Giulia Lama (1681-1747), and Ruggeri was led to attribute the present drawing and another drawing in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. 66.53.4) to this rather derivative artist. However, both our drawings display a vigor and authority that is absent in the graphic material pre

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Executioner Holding Up a Severed Head. Artist: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, Venice 1682-1754 Venice). Dimensions: 15-15/16 x 10-1/2 in. (40.5 x 26.7 cm). Date: 1682-1754.This drawing of an executioner holding up a head was possibly conceived by Piazzetta for his paiting with "The Martyrdom of Saint Paul" (Private collection, Italy), where a similar mustachioed executioner appears in a slightly different pose. Ugo Ruggeri was the first to point out that the figure in this drawing was copied in a small painting executed by the workshop of Piazzetta, "The Martyrdom of Saint Eurosia", in the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice (Ruggeri 1973). The painting is generally ascribed to the Venetian painter Giulia Lama (1681-1747), and Ruggeri was led to attribute the present drawing and another drawing in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. 66.53.4) to this rather derivative artist. However, both our drawings display a vigor and authority that is absent in the graphic material pre

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