Caption
High Priest Zacharias, Saint Joachim, print, The High Priest Zacharias with censer. The birth of John the Baptist was foretold to Zacharias by the Archangel Gabriel. The angel appeared to Zacharias at the moment he was offering incense in the temple. In the lower margin, the figure is incorrectly identified as Saint Joachim, the father of Mary., printmaker: Domenico Vito, Italy, after painting by Andrea del Sarto, 1580, paper, engraving, intaglio printmaking technique, engraving with plate tone, height 277 mm x width 187 mm, Print after the figure of Zacharias in a fresco by Andrea del Sarto in the Chiostro dello Scalzo in Florence., the father of Mary, Joachim, possible attributes: book, two doves, lamb, (shepherd's) staff, annunciation of the birth of John the Baptist to Zacharias: while he is offering incense in the temple an angel (Gabriel) appears to him, A grayscale engraved image of an elderly man in profile facing right, wearing a voluminous hooded cloak with deep folds and a clasp at the chest, his head bowed and showing a receding hairline, curly hair, and a beard; a small lantern-like object hangs from his cloak at his side, and the figure stands on a stepped platform against a finely lined background.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A93_190
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