Very rare Popular print of 17th century. BERTELLI. Iudicium Sanguinarium Iudaeorum Contra Iesum Christum Salvatorem Mundi [..]

Engraving on copper on three sheets; mm. 450 x 1020, lower margins; Insciption on high in the middle. Title on the left bottom: Fran.co Bertelli forma in Padoa; on the bottom in the middle: Ego Pontius Pilatus [...] terra lapidi invisum. The legend on the bottom is difficult to read probably for the wear. Some little holes, little stains and little losses on corners.

Very rare sheet. In this composition of obvious popular taste, are depicted a large number of characters participating in the trial against Jesus: besides Jesus himself with the crown of thorns, tied and seated on the right, Pontius Pilate enthroned surrounded by counselors, two scribes busy at a table and twenty members of the SInedrio, each with a numbered scroll bearing the name and some identifying notes; after all, in addition to a large window, one can see a crowd, the twenty-first actor in the process. In the bottom in the ornate box the sentence of Pontius Pilate in Latin, the legend with the list of all the participants. The Bertelli family represents the largest group of publishers, engravers, cartographers and merchants of 16th century prints. Francesco, son of Pietro Bertelli, is from the repertoires working in Padua in the first half of the seventeenth century: however we find his address in the Apparatus for the coming of Henry III of 1574 and in the Triompho di Bacco of 1594, which he attributed to Raphael.