Pietro Paolo Sarpi. Mezzotint by W. Dickinson, 1777, after F. Zucchero.
- Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540-1609.
- Date:
- 1777
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- 8371i
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Theologian to the Venetian republic, author of the History of the Council of Trent and other works hostile to the temporal power of the papacy. The present portrait shows the cheek wound which Sarpi sustained when an assassin attacked him in Venice in 1607, for which he was treated by Fabricius ab Acquapendente. See Andrew Cunningham, The anatomical renaissance, Aldershot 1997, pp. 261-267
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1777
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1 print : mezzotint
References note
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2607.1
J. Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, part 1, London 1883, p. 196, Dickinson no. 73
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Wellcome Collection 8371i
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