Pietro Fancelli. The preparatory drawing for Alessandro e Timoteo

Abstract

The article is dedicated to Pietro Fancelli’s work. It has been taking shape through a progressive reevaluation of the artist’s career since the beginning of the twentieth century with the studies on the seventeenth century in Bologna by Renato Roli until the latest papers by Angelo Mazza. Besides, the essential reference to the manuscript written by Fancelli, has allowed to link the preparatory drawing representing Alessandro e Timoteo to the much praised curtain which has been lost.