Saint Francis Renouncing His Worldly Goods 1696-97 Luigi Garzi Italian This drawing came to the Metropolitan Museum in 1887 under the name of Garzi's master, Andrea Sacchi, and it was not until 1966 that the correct identification was supplied by the great connoisseur Philip Pouncey. He recognized the drawing as a study for a painting by Luigi Garzi that forms part of the decoration of the Cappella di San Francesco in San Silvestro in Capite, Rome. The painting (repr. Sestieri, 1972, p. 97, fig. 8 and Ellis K. Waterhouse, Baroque Paintings in Rome, London, 1937, p. 65) differs in a number of details from this squared drawing, but it retains the arched top outlined here. Waterhouse mentions an inscriptions recording that all the chapels were completed by 1696. Garzi's pictures were mentioned in the 1697 'Descrizioni di Roma.' Philip Pouncey, J.S. Gaynor and Maria Toesca (in 'Le Chiese di Rome Illustrate',Rome, 1963, p. 86) mention that a preparatoty drawing for the left lateral canvas r

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Saint Francis Renouncing His Worldly Goods 1696-97 Luigi Garzi Italian This drawing came to the Metropolitan Museum in 1887 under the name of Garzi's master, Andrea Sacchi, and it was not until 1966 that the correct identification was supplied by the great connoisseur Philip Pouncey. He recognized the drawing as a study for a painting by Luigi Garzi that forms part of the decoration of the Cappella di San Francesco in San Silvestro in Capite, Rome. The painting (repr. Sestieri, 1972, p. 97, fig. 8 and Ellis K. Waterhouse, Baroque Paintings in Rome, London, 1937, p. 65) differs in a number of details from this squared drawing, but it retains the arched top outlined here. Waterhouse mentions an inscriptions recording that all the chapels were completed by 1696. Garzi's pictures were mentioned in the 1697 'Descrizioni di Roma.' Philip Pouncey, J.S. Gaynor and Maria Toesca (in 'Le Chiese di Rome Illustrate',Rome, 1963, p. 86) mention that a preparatoty drawing for the left lateral canvas r

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