Resumen de Tre nuovi disegni di Livio Agresti per Santa Caterina dei Funari
Although the Roman church of Santa Caterina dei Funari is one of the most important sixteenth-century ecclesiastical foundations in the Eternal City, it is still little known today. The church was built ex novo at the wish of Cardinal Federico Cesi, and contains the work of the best-known Roman artists of the later sixteenth century, including Federico Zuccari and Girolamo Muziano, and once also housing works by Livio Agresti of Forlì, now lost. Indeed when the church opened its doors in 1565 Agresti was commissioned to paint the entire cappella maggiore with scenes from the life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Some unpublished drawings, presented here with a new attribution to the artist, enable us to reconstruct the original projects for the chapel�s frescoes, never begun because of the patron�s premature death, and for three altarpieces, now replaced by three eighteenth-century paintings.
