Resumen de L'antico e Venezia nei disegni di Livio Mehus
The biographies of Livio Meheus and other documentary sources reveal that during his first twenty years, guided by Pietro da Cortona and Stefano della Bella, the artist applied himself above all to graphic art. Special mention is made of his studies after the antique, and after the Venetian masters of the sixteenth century. These two categories of drawings, which occupied Mehus during his sjourns in Rome and Venice in the 1650s and 1660s -when he also worked as consultant, collecting drawings on behalf of Leopoldo de' Medici -are the subject of this article. A considerable number of sheets are presented here, consisting of copies of famous ancient monuments (including marble sculptures housed in the Villa Medici, Trajan's Column, ant the statue of Marcus Aurelius) as well as of some of the most celebrated canvases in Venice (Titian, Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Tintoretto), with specific notes on attribution, iconography and provenance.
