Beschreibung:

Ghisi (Giorgio Mantovano, circa 1520-1582). The Last Judgement (after Michelangelo), mid 1540's [but later, circa 1677], engraved portrait frontispiece of Michelangelo by Ghisi, engraved plate of the complete Last Judgement by Sebastian Furck (1589-1665), and ten irregularly shaped double-page copper engraved plates of Michelangelo's Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, numbered A-I and L, the latter signed Georgius Mantuanus, and the preceding plate I with printed dedication to Matthys van de Merwede, the general plate and final plate L with publisher's name Giovanni Giacomo Rossi Rome (active 1638-1684), all on laid paper, some marks and marginal soiling and light waterstain to upper inner margins, portrait with semi-circular portion to lower blank margin excised, generally with very wide margins, sheet size 495 x 620 mm (19.5 x 24.4 ins), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, worn, folio (Qty: 1) Boorsch & Lewis, Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1985), 9, state v. The late reissue by Giovanni Giacomo Rossi (1600-1699) of Ghisi's famous engravings after Michelangelo's fresco of the Last Judgement, originally published by Antonio Lafreri.