Funtione Funebre fatta nella Morte di N.S. Papa Clemente XIII. Seguita nel di 2 Febraro 1769...
| Reference: | S22963 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista FALDA |
| Year: | 1769 |
| Measures: | 350 x 270 mm |
€1,000.00
| Reference: | S22963 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista FALDA |
| Year: | 1769 |
| Measures: | 350 x 270 mm |
€1,000.00
Description
Top center in the cartouche: FONTIONE FVNEBRE FATTA NELLA MORTE DI N. S. PAPA CLEMENTE XII. SEGUITA NEL 2 Febraro 1769. TRASPORTATO DAL PALAZZO PONTIFICIO DEL QVIRINALE ALLA CAPELLA DI SISTO IV. NEL PALLAZZO VATICANO alli 4 del detto mese.
In the lower center in the cartouche: Cerimonia fatta nel trasportare il Cadauere del sudetto Sommo Pontefice, accompagnato dal Capitolo, e Clero della medesima Basilica Vaticana, et Emm.mi Sig.ri Cardinali, dalla Cappella di Sisto IV. alla Cappella del S.mo Sacramento in S. Pietro.
Bottom left: Si stampano alla Calcografia Camerale.
Etching and engraving, 1769, dated in plate at top center.
Impressed by the Calcografia Camerale, which used the plate, signed Gio Batta Falda diss. et incise and printed by Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, made in 1676 for the funeral of Pope Clement X and later reused, with changes in title and date, for other pops' funeral ceremonies.
Magnificent proof, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, in excellent condition. As this is a broadsheet print, created to document an event, it is a work of absolute rarity.
Bibliography
Simonetta Tozzi, Incisioni barocche di feste ed avvenimenti, p. 105, II. 28.
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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