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Pivati Gianfrancesco - The Commemoration of Hussein - Etching on paper (1746/51) - The Commemoration of Hussein is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, representing the typical feast in memory of Hussein, the Lord of martyrs from India to Pakistan, to Afghanistan and Iran, Arzerbaijan, Yemen, al Bahrain, Syria, Iraq, Libano, is from the series New Scientific and Curious Dictionary concerning the Sacred and the Profane, Tome VIII, Plate XVII, published by Benedetto Milocco in Venice in 1746-1751, concerning the Uses and Costumes, Religious Rites of people.