Costumi di Albano

Reference: s19484
Author Bartolomeo PINELLI
Year: 1823
Zone: Albano
Printed: Rome
Measures: 310 x 215 mm
€150.00

Reference: s19484
Author Bartolomeo PINELLI
Year: 1823
Zone: Albano
Printed: Rome
Measures: 310 x 215 mm
€150.00

Description

Popular costume, taken from Nuova raccolta di cinquanta costumi de' contorni di Roma compresi diversi fatti di brigandi disegnati ed incisi all'acqua forte, published in Rome by Giovanni Scudellari in 1823.

This collection, unknown to Brunet and Lipperheide, shows the typical costumes of the inhabitants of the surroundings of Rome and includes 16 plates dedicated to the life of brigands.

 

Copperplate, finely hand-colored, in excellent state of preservation.

Literature

Cfr. Colas 2386; Hiler 711; Vinet 2297.

Bartolomeo PINELLI (Roma, 1781 - Rome, 1835)

Italian printmaker, painter, sculptor and draughtsman. He learnt the rudiments of sculpture from his father, a maker of cheap religious statuettes. This early training encouraged Pinelli to emphasize plasticity and expression over the Neo-classical values prevalent in Rome. Although only a few of his terracotta figures survive however, he did produce a volume of etchings, Gruppi pittoreschi (Rome, 1834), depicting rustic groups. Its emphasis on naturalism and everyday subject-matter is also characteristic of his sculptures. Although he studied both at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, helped financially by Conte Lambertini, Pope Benedict XIV’s nephew, Pinelli was not interested in pursuing the traditional path to artistic success via religious or history painting. On returning to Rome in the late 1790s he chose to peddle his works at the cafés frequented by tourists.

Literature

Cfr. Colas 2386; Hiler 711; Vinet 2297.

Bartolomeo PINELLI (Roma, 1781 - Rome, 1835)

Italian printmaker, painter, sculptor and draughtsman. He learnt the rudiments of sculpture from his father, a maker of cheap religious statuettes. This early training encouraged Pinelli to emphasize plasticity and expression over the Neo-classical values prevalent in Rome. Although only a few of his terracotta figures survive however, he did produce a volume of etchings, Gruppi pittoreschi (Rome, 1834), depicting rustic groups. Its emphasis on naturalism and everyday subject-matter is also characteristic of his sculptures. Although he studied both at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, helped financially by Conte Lambertini, Pope Benedict XIV’s nephew, Pinelli was not interested in pursuing the traditional path to artistic success via religious or history painting. On returning to Rome in the late 1790s he chose to peddle his works at the cafés frequented by tourists.