5224A
Filippo saves a youth drowning at sea
Filippo saves a youth drowning at sea
- Artist
- Christan Sas (b. 1648 and active in 1660)
- Title
- Filippo saves a youth drowning at sea
- Date
- After 1659
- Medium
- Engraving. After Jacques Stella (1596-1657). Plate 17/45 of a Life of Saint Philip Neri. Forty-one of these plates are by Luca Ciamberlano (1570 – 1641) and four (including an unnumbered title plate) by Christan Sas. The plates by Ciamberlano follow designs by Guido Reni (1575-1642), Ciamberlano himself, and possibly others. The plates by Sas are all after Stella (1596-1657). This set of plates was published, together with a 45th numbered engraving by Girolamo Frezza (1659-1741) after Pietro Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755), in Pietro Giacomo Bacci C.O. (1575-1656) Vita di S. Filippo Neri Fiorentino. Rome: appresso il Bernabò e Lazzarini, 1745 (this is a later edition of a book first published in the 1620s in connection with the canonization of Neri). Our image is drawn from this 1745 edition.
- Photo Source
- Getty Resarch Institute / Hathi Trust Digital Library / Almerindo Ojeda
- Note
- An account book kept by the artist identifies Reni as the designer of twenty-four of the Ciamberlano engravings, and Ciamberlano himself as the designer of three. It also dates precisely the Ciamberlano plates. See Melasecchi, Olga & Pepper, D. Stephen, "Guido Reni, Luca Ciamberlano and the Oratorians: Their relationship clarified." The Burlington Magazine 140: 596-603.
- Item
- 5224A
