Fontana nel Giardino di Belvedere
| Reference: | CO-830 |
| Author | Giovanni MAGGI |
| Year: | 1618 |
| Zone: | Frascati |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 305 x 210 mm |
€180.00
| Reference: | CO-830 |
| Author | Giovanni MAGGI |
| Year: | 1618 |
| Zone: | Frascati |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 305 x 210 mm |
€180.00
Description
A view of the Fontana del Belvedere in the Villa Aldobrandina of Frascati.
Etching, 1618, lettere with title at the bottom.
Plate taken from the Fontane diverse che si vedano nel' Alma Città di Roma et altre parte d'Italia. Delineate da Giovanni Maggi Romano pittore et architetto, con diverse altre novamente dal istesso inventate et poste in luce ad instanza di Giosepe de Rossi milanese/ In Roma con licentia dell' Superiori / L'Anno M.D.C.XVIII'.
The series comprises thirty-three etchings by Giovanni de Maggi and one by Francesco Corduba. They are most fully described by Peter Fuhring in his catalogue of ornament prints from the Rijksmuseum, nos.8280-8337. The composition of the series varies from surviving set to set, and in addition copies are known of some of the plates.The first edition was issued by Giuseppe de' Rossi in 1618, with later editions in 1645, 1651 and one undated.
Bibliografia
Berlin 1939 / Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin (3597); Fuhring 2004 / Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum - the Seventeenth Century (8280)
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Painter and etcher. Active in Rome. He appears in 1605 in the Libro del Camerlengo of the Compagnia di S.Luca, Rome, in a list of those who have contributed ‘per lemosina dela candela’. He applied for admission to the Virtuosi del Pantheon, 9 January 1611.
1609 entered into a working agreement with Giovanni Orlandi at the Pasquino-engraved various churches for him.Plates listed in the Vaccari stocklist of 1614.
Important as an etcher of landscape.Also antiquities,including series:Libro di tutte le guglie,1600,and the ornamenti delle fabbriche antiche e moderne dell’alma città di Rome,1600.
Map of Rome, 1603. 1604 Bichierografia, commissioned from him c.1600 by Cardinale Del Monte.
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Painter and etcher. Active in Rome. He appears in 1605 in the Libro del Camerlengo of the Compagnia di S.Luca, Rome, in a list of those who have contributed ‘per lemosina dela candela’. He applied for admission to the Virtuosi del Pantheon, 9 January 1611.
1609 entered into a working agreement with Giovanni Orlandi at the Pasquino-engraved various churches for him.Plates listed in the Vaccari stocklist of 1614.
Important as an etcher of landscape.Also antiquities,including series:Libro di tutte le guglie,1600,and the ornamenti delle fabbriche antiche e moderne dell’alma città di Rome,1600.
Map of Rome, 1603. 1604 Bichierografia, commissioned from him c.1600 by Cardinale Del Monte.
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