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Questo è donatomi dal\r\nS[ignor] / Villani Pittor faentino. Che qui mi / addita\r\nl’opera in pittura in [sopra deleted] / una sala del\r\nS[ignor] Co[nte] Pietro Mazzolani / di Faenza.\r\nProseguo il viaggio di [. . .] V[ostra] R[everenza]\r\nDev[otissi]mo et ob[ligatissi]mo S[ervitore]\r\nSeb[astian]o Resta / Faenza / 27 Se[ttem]bre / 1690\r\n(Father Giuseppe Del Voglia, My Lord. In my\r\njourney to Milan I passed through Faenza, and I\r\nfound this drawing by Marco Marchetti da Faenza,\r\nwhose life Baglione wrote, and since in the libro\r\ndegl’arabeschi, which I gave in honor of Your\r\nReverence, there are others in this style, I am also\r\nsending you the present one, so that if any others\r\nthat resemble it were found, annotated as by other\r\nauthors, you could correct their name and ascribe it\r\nto this Marco of Faenza. This was given to me by\r\nSignor Villani, a painter of Faenza, who has\r\npointed out to me the [related] painted work in a\r\nroom of Count Pietro Mazzolani of Faenza. I\r\ncontinue my journey [. . .]. Your Reverence’s Most\r\nDevoted and Most Obliging Servant, Sebastiano\r\nResta. Faenza, September 27, 1690); inscribed\r\nrecto, lower left, in brown ink (by a different hand):\r\nNon potea fare ammanco di scrivere queste ciacolature\r\nsopra il disegno, ed imbrattarlo (He could not resist\r\nwriting these chatterings on the drawing, and\r\ndefiling it)","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Tommaso Missiroli, called Il Villano (ca. 1636–1699), Faenza; Padre Sebastiano Resta; Giuseppe Del Voglia, Palermo; Pietro Scarpa, Venice.;","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"

These two decorative studies document the work of Marco Marchetti, an artist celebrated in his own time for fresco projects with lively and inventive grotesques, which he executed in palaces in Rome, Florence, and his hometown of Faenza. Both sketches are preliminary ideas for an elaborate wall frieze carried out by Marchetti for the Faenza residence of nobleman Cavalier Silvestro Rondinini.
 
These drawings are also important for the history of collecting: they were annotated by Father Sebastiano Resta, a renowned and discerning collector of drawings in seventeenth-century Italy. One of the sheets bears a letter written by Resta to Father Giuseppe Del Voglia in Palermo, urging him to include the drawings in his album of decorative drawings, as examples of Marchetti’s draftsmanship. In the letter, which is signed and dated 1691 and sent from Faenza, Resta explains that he had recently obtained these drawings from the local painter Tommaso Missiroli. Only in 1981 were the two studies reunited in Princeton.

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