Executioner Holding Up a Severed Head 1682–1754 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Italian This drawing of an executioner holding up a head was possibly conceived by Piazzetta for his paiting with "The Martyrdom of Saint Paul" (Private collection, Italy), where a similar mustachioed executioner appears in a slightly different pose. Ugo Ruggeri was the first to point out that the figure in this drawing was copied in a small painting executed by the workshop of Piazzetta, "The Martyrdom of Saint Eurosia", in the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice (Ruggeri 1973). The painting is generally ascribed to the Venetian pa
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Executioner Holding Up a Severed Head 1682–1754 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Italian This drawing of an executioner holding up a head was possibly conceived by Piazzetta for his paiting with "The Martyrdom of Saint Paul" (Private collection, Italy), where a similar mustachioed executioner appears in a slightly different pose. Ugo Ruggeri was the first to point out that the figure in this drawing was copied in a small painting executed by the workshop of Piazzetta, "The Martyrdom of Saint Eurosia", in the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice (Ruggeri 1973). The painting is generally ascribed to the Venetian pa