Vincenzo Giustiniani
by MELLAN, Claude, Black chalk and black crayon on paper, 241 x 175 mm
Vincenzo Giustiniani (1564-1637) was one of the most brilliant, and knowledgeable lovers of art in early seventeenth-century Rome. He assembled a renowned collection of roughly 1.800 works of classical sculpture and 600 paintings, among them eleven of Caravaggio’s most important works.