Prospetto ed elevazione diruta del Teatro scenico della Villa Adriana... / Prospetto ed elevazione geometrica del Teatro...

Reference: S40642
Author Paolo Fidanza
Year: 1753
Printed: Rome
Measures: 450 x 625 mm
€200.00

Reference: S40642
Author Paolo Fidanza
Year: 1753
Printed: Rome
Measures: 450 x 625 mm
€200.00

Description

Etching, 1753, signed along the bottom margin "Giuseppe Pannini Architetto delineò" "Paolo Fidanza incise in Roma". Printed on contemporary laid paper with "double circle with lily and letters P and V" watermark, in excellent condition.

The sheet is part of a group of three large plates published in 1753 and dedicated to the Odeion of Villa Adriana, already known at the time of Pirro Ligorio and Francesco Contini, that was mesaured in all its parts by the architect Pannini and then engraved by Paolo Fidanza. The architect in the dedication to Cardinal Valenti, Secretary of State and Camerlengo, writes:

in tre stampe espresse le forme, e misure esattissime di sì illustre edifizio, che da una specie di Tempietto rotondo, quale nel centro dell’emiciclo della scalinata su un ripiano osservasi, cosa non mai veduta in altri antichi Teatri, rendesi singolarissimo.

Literature

W. McDonald - J. Pinto y Villa Adriana…, pp. 148-149.

Paolo Fidanza(1735-1781 circa)

Literature

W. McDonald - J. Pinto y Villa Adriana…, pp. 148-149.

Paolo Fidanza(1735-1781 circa)