Apostles drawings album Apostles drawings album

Text and files edited by Filippo Tuena published in Stefano Susinno, Drawings by Tommaso Minardi, exhibition catalog (Rome. National Gallery of Modern Art, 21 October 1982 - 9 January 1983), Rome 1982

Album with leather-bound spine and marbled-paper cover; containing 49 leaves of brown card. A paper label on the spine bears the words: “Album VII”. Artist’s bequest, 1871.The album currently contains one extra drawing in addition to the 103 drawings specified on the label. Minardi presumably considered it a form of “work in progress”; in fact the leaves of the album bear fragmentary traces of drawings that have been glued in and subsequently removed. Three of the drawings represent Christ; the remaining 100 are all connected with apostles, martyrs or prophets.