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This brief publication (in Italian) is available as a free PDF from De Luca Editori d’Arte; the English abstract is included below:

Sabina d’Inzillo Carranza de Cavi, Glama Ströberle tra Roma e Lisbona: Vieira, Benefial, Masucci e la pietra rossa (Rome: De Luca Editori d’Arte, 2025), 31 pages, ISBN: 978-8865576502 (PDF file), free.

This essay, which thoroughly analyzes three notebooks now in the special collections of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, focuses on the graphic style of João Glama Ströberle, a Portuguese painter of German descent, a pupil of Vieira Lusitano, and a master of Vieira Portuense. His training in Rome from 1734 to 1741 with talented artists such as the non-conformist Marco Benefial and the Marattesque Agostino Masucci made him an important trait d’union between Italy and Portugal, where he contributed to the transfer of the principles of life drawing and academic draughtsmanship. The essay discusses the graphic techniques learned in Rome, paying particular attention to the use of red chalk in the 18th century, between Rome and Lisbon.