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| | Christie's - Francesco Salviati [1510-1563] - Featured on Artfact.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | The commission for the decoration of the hall, intended for the reception of diplomatic missions, had been awarded by Pope Pius IV to Francesco Salviati, Giuseppe Porta's teacher, in 1560, through the offices of his patron Cardinal Farnese. |
 | | Porta, by birth a Tuscan, was taken to Rome at an early age and in 1535 was apprenticed to the Florentine Francesco Salviati, from whom he later took his name. |
 | | A third study, in fl and red chalk, for the group in the lower left corner of the fresco was formerly in the Collection of Michel Gaud, sold Sotheby's, Monaco, 20 June 1987, lot 72. |
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