Palazzo dell''Ill. et Rev. Mons. Commendatore di S.to Spirito nel Rione di Borgo fabbricato da Gregorio XIII con architettur
| Reference: | S3966 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista FALDA |
| Year: | 1655 ca. |
| Zone: | Palazzo del Commendatore, Borgo Santo Spirito |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 410 x 200 mm |
€130.00
| Reference: | S3966 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista FALDA |
| Year: | 1655 ca. |
| Zone: | Palazzo del Commendatore, Borgo Santo Spirito |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 410 x 200 mm |
€130.00
Description
Plate from the series Palazzi di Roma de' più celebri architetti designate da Pietro Ferrerio pittore et architetto.
The work was projected and begun by Pietro Ferrerio in about 1638; the second book, Nuovi disegni delle architetture e piante dei palazzi di Roma de' più celebri architetti..., was done by G. B. Falda, who was also the engraver, and was published in 1655 by G. G. De Rossi. Regarding the first book we do not know the name of the engraver: Ferrerio signs the plates only as a draftsman. The most important Roman building typologies are illustrated by Ferrerio both in elevation and in plan, starting from the golden age of Bramante, Raphael, Peruzzi and Michelangelo and then moving on to Vignola, Ammannati, Ligorio, Della Porta, finally dedicating a modest space to the architects of the new century, such as Bernini, Borromini or Domenico Fontana: This is an evident sign of how much the orientation of the culture and taste of the mature seventeenth century tended towards a recovery and a preference for sixteenth-century classicism or late counter-reformed Mannerism.
Each panel is accompanied by a historical inscription that always reports, among other information, the name of the architect who designed the work, and the year in which construction began.
The engravings are characterized by the precision of the drawing, the attention to detail and the sharpness of the image. The work constitutes a sort of guide to Roman architecture between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, of great historical-documentary value.
Etching, printed on contemporary laid paper, in good condition.
Giovanni Battista FALDA (Valduggia, Novara, 1643; Rome, 1678)
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Giovan Battista Falda, a native of Valduggia, was sent to Rome at the age of 14 and entrusted to the care of an uncle who pointed him out to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. But it was his meeting with printer Gian Giacomo De Rossi that marked a turning point in Falda's artistic career: in fact, his talent was directed by the publisher to the art of engraving. In De Rossi's workshop he could also appreciate the work of great engravers such as J. Callot, S. Della Bella and I. Silvestre; having completed his apprenticeship, he was benevolently received at the papal court, so much so that Alexander VII commissioned him to design the factories of the Castel Gandolfo residence. In 1665, Falda gave to the presses for the publisher De Rossi his masterpiece: the plates of the first book of the Nuovo Teatro delle fabbriche, et edificii, in prospettiva di Roma moderna sotto il felice pontificato di n. s. Alessandro VII, which was followed, between 1665 and '69, by the second and third. The work was intended to popularize the new image of Rome: the Pope, in fact, decided to open new streets, to embellish the city with fountains and monuments, also as a demonstration of the financial and cultural power of his family. With the Nuovo Teatro, as with the later collections devoted to fountains and palaces, Falda became the popularizer of these aspects; his engraved views, characterized by attention to both perspective rules and scenographic effects, skillfully exploit the vigor of line and the richness of the contrast between black and white, in keeping with the spatial criteria of Baroque art. The specifically popular and commercial aspect of the engraved views was skillfully exploited by the publisher De Rossi, who established an inseparable and effective partnership with Falda, to whom much of the printed production of the century in Rome was owed, with a fortune comparable only to that which would be paid to the work of Giovan Battista Piranesi. Falda's activity was tireless despite the brevity of the time span in which he worked (he died at the age of 35 on August 22, 1678 and was buried in S. Maria della Scala in Trastevere). By the end of his life he had engraved about 300 plates: many of these are preserved in Rome at the Calcografia nazionale.
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Giovanni Battista FALDA (Valduggia, Novara, 1643; Rome, 1678)
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Giovan Battista Falda, a native of Valduggia, was sent to Rome at the age of 14 and entrusted to the care of an uncle who pointed him out to Gian Lorenzo Bernini. But it was his meeting with printer Gian Giacomo De Rossi that marked a turning point in Falda's artistic career: in fact, his talent was directed by the publisher to the art of engraving. In De Rossi's workshop he could also appreciate the work of great engravers such as J. Callot, S. Della Bella and I. Silvestre; having completed his apprenticeship, he was benevolently received at the papal court, so much so that Alexander VII commissioned him to design the factories of the Castel Gandolfo residence. In 1665, Falda gave to the presses for the publisher De Rossi his masterpiece: the plates of the first book of the Nuovo Teatro delle fabbriche, et edificii, in prospettiva di Roma moderna sotto il felice pontificato di n. s. Alessandro VII, which was followed, between 1665 and '69, by the second and third. The work was intended to popularize the new image of Rome: the Pope, in fact, decided to open new streets, to embellish the city with fountains and monuments, also as a demonstration of the financial and cultural power of his family. With the Nuovo Teatro, as with the later collections devoted to fountains and palaces, Falda became the popularizer of these aspects; his engraved views, characterized by attention to both perspective rules and scenographic effects, skillfully exploit the vigor of line and the richness of the contrast between black and white, in keeping with the spatial criteria of Baroque art. The specifically popular and commercial aspect of the engraved views was skillfully exploited by the publisher De Rossi, who established an inseparable and effective partnership with Falda, to whom much of the printed production of the century in Rome was owed, with a fortune comparable only to that which would be paid to the work of Giovan Battista Piranesi. Falda's activity was tireless despite the brevity of the time span in which he worked (he died at the age of 35 on August 22, 1678 and was buried in S. Maria della Scala in Trastevere). By the end of his life he had engraved about 300 plates: many of these are preserved in Rome at the Calcografia nazionale.
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