Five Soldiers The Bathers . Detail from the Battle of Cascina

by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michele Lucchese after Agostino Veneziano, active

$9,000 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

SECOND STATE of 5 . With “Michaelan/gelus. Buona/rotus. Inuentor” on the plaque at center and “.M.L./cum priuile-/gio.” on the slab at lower right. A fine, rich impression and a very fine example, with ample margins and only some marginal blemishes. This is a reversed copy of an engraving by Agostino Veneziano 1490-1540 , published in 1523, of five figures from Michelangelo’s

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