Odi, vedi e taci, sè vuoi viver in pace
| Reference: | S43697 |
| Author | Giuseppe Maria MITELLI |
| Year: | 1678 |
| Measures: | 200 x 275 mm |
| Reference: | S43697 |
| Author | Giuseppe Maria MITELLI |
| Year: | 1678 |
| Measures: | 200 x 275 mm |
Description
Illustrated proverb advising to listen, look and to be quiet if you wish to have a peaceful existence; an old man, wearing thick round glasses, seated and pointing to his hear and gesturing towards his mouth, suggesting to be quiet; a large pillar seen to right and a building to left .
Etching, 1678, numbered and lettered with proverb; signed 'GM. Mitelli I. e F'; lettered below image with an Italian poem.
The work belongs to the Proverbi figurati series.
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli was a prolific author of more than six hundred engravings, he produced reproductions and numerous subjects commenting on historical facts, moral themes, and social situations in a popular vein, including the best-known series Le Arti per via, based on a group of drawings by Annibale Carracci, and the 48 plates for the series Proverbi figurati consecrati al Serenissimo Principe Francesco Maria di Toscana, which show the artist's humanity and his attention to detail and characters. He is also credited with illustrations for novels of chivalry and series of playing cards.
Beautiful proof, on contemporary laid paper, with margins, in very good condition.
Bibliografia
L. Marinese, Proverbi figurati di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1967; Bertarelli 1940; Le Incisioni di Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, catalogo critico, n. 427; Bartsch, Le Peintre graveur (XIX.294.72).
Giuseppe Maria MITELLI (Bologna 1634 – 1718)
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Bologna 1634 - 1718) was the son of Agostino, a well-known painter and engraver; according to his brother Giovanni in his Vita et opere di Agostino Mitelli, he trained with a number of important artists, studying with Simone Cantarini, Francesco Albani, Guercino and Flaminio Torri, among others. Of his pictorial activity, far from limited according to ancient evidence, however, a very meager corpus remains, consisting of only a few units. He devoted his greatest efforts to the art of engraving, initiated in all probability by his father, leaving behind some 600 prints executed largely in etching. In 1660 Mitelli published the Arti per via, a series of 40 etchings derived from the inventions of Annibale Carracci, translated into print in 1646 into 80 plates by Simone Guillain. With the enterprise, edited by the Roman Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, Mitelli inaugurated a flourishing production of images with popular themes, which became something of a trademark of the Bolognese engraver.
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Giuseppe Maria MITELLI (Bologna 1634 – 1718)
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Bologna 1634 - 1718) was the son of Agostino, a well-known painter and engraver; according to his brother Giovanni in his Vita et opere di Agostino Mitelli, he trained with a number of important artists, studying with Simone Cantarini, Francesco Albani, Guercino and Flaminio Torri, among others. Of his pictorial activity, far from limited according to ancient evidence, however, a very meager corpus remains, consisting of only a few units. He devoted his greatest efforts to the art of engraving, initiated in all probability by his father, leaving behind some 600 prints executed largely in etching. In 1660 Mitelli published the Arti per via, a series of 40 etchings derived from the inventions of Annibale Carracci, translated into print in 1646 into 80 plates by Simone Guillain. With the enterprise, edited by the Roman Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, Mitelli inaugurated a flourishing production of images with popular themes, which became something of a trademark of the Bolognese engraver.
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