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Studio per “Liber veritatis”, 1979

GPC-0522

Study for “Liber veritatis”

Pencil, red pencil and collage on paper

Two parts 50 x 50 cm each, overall dimensions 50 x 100 cm

Present whereabouts unknown

Q. Lollius Alcamenes, mid-1st century AD, marble funerary relief, 25 x 33 cm, Villa Albani, Rome; reproduction from Opere di G. G. Winckelmann, prima edizione italiana completa 13 (Prato: Fratelli Giachetti, 1830-34), plate CLXV, no. 364 (“Quinto Lollio Alcamene Scultore”).
Title from Claude Lorrain, Liber Veritatis, 1636-82, British Museum, London.

1979 London, Lisson Gallery, Giulio Paolini. Liber veritatis, 20 March - 13 April.
Giulio Paolini, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1980, repr. p. 43 (with incorrect technique).
Entry by Ilaria Bernardi and Maddalena Disch, 12/06/2026