Paus Sixtus V, knielend in gebed
This penetrating portrait of Pope Sixtus V is the result of a collaboration between three young artists in Rome. The sculptor Prospero Bresciano,
mentioned in the print as the designer, probably made the model in clay. Giuseppe Cesari recorded this in a drawing that is now kept in the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. It is after that drawing that Salimbeni made the etching, probably his first.