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Disegno dell'Arco trionfale datto dalla natione fiorentina ad honore della Santità di N.S. Papa Leone XI...
| Reference: | S52136 |
| Author | Giovanni MAGGI |
| Year: | 1605 |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 280 x 385 mm |
€1,100.00
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| Reference: | S52136 |
| Author | Giovanni MAGGI |
| Year: | 1605 |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 280 x 385 mm |
€1,100.00
Description
DISEGNO DELL'ARCO TRIONFALE FATTO DALLA NATIONE FIORENTINA AD HONORE DELLA SANTITA' DI N.S. PAPA LEONE XI NEL PIGLIARE IL POSSESSO DI SAN GIOVANNI IN LATERANO ALLI 17 D'APRILE 1605. Donato Frosini fu l'architetto. Dominicis De Rubeis formis Romae ad templ. S.M. de Pace, Roma, 1605.
Etching, 1605, signed at the bottom "Giovanni Maggi inci[se]" and "Donato Frosini fu l'architetto".
Depicts the arch erected on Via dei Banchi at the entrance to the Castel Sant'Angelo bridge to commemorate the Florentine Pope Leo XI's (born Alessandro di Ottaviano de'Medici, 1535-1567) taking possession of the church on April 17, 1605. It was erected by the Florentine community in Rome, who saw in the fellow Florentine pontiff the opportunity to finally see the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini completed. Domenico Cresti, known as Il Passignano, an "excellent painter," was responsible for the project and its decorations, while Donato Frosini, a Florentine architect, limited himself to the supporting structure. The large wooden arch was built by architect Donato Frosini following the Florentine's design. After the cavalcade and the passage under the arch, the Medici pontiff fell ill and died just ten days later. His death marked the beginning of a new period of inactivity for the Roman community and its construction: it was not until 1730 that a new Florentine pontiff, Clement XII Corsini, was elected, thus completing work on the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini.
A magnificent work, printed on contemporary laid paper with margins, two wormholes in the right white margin, otherwise in excellent condition. Rare.
Bibliografia
Julia Vicioso, L’arco di trionfo del Passignano per celebrare a Roma Leone XI, in “Medicea” n. 8 febbraio 2011.
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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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