Cesare Fracassini - Pencil drawing on paper “I Martiri del Giappone” (The Martyrs of Japan)
Published by Massimo Sarandrea on 13 October 2013
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“I Martiri del Giappone” (The Martyrs of Japan)
Pencil drawing on paper
About 1865
Dimensions:
h. 72.5 cm x l. 92 cm
Signed “Cesare Fracassini” in the lower right corner
The drawing depicts the martyrdom of three Jesuit missionaries in Japan crucified in Nagasaki in 1597 on the "holy hill" and proclaimed saints by Pope Pius IX in 1862.
The work is certainlythe preparatory drawing in its final version for the painting of the same name.
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