Veduta della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano, fondata da Costantino Magno...
| Reference: | A54232 |
| Author | Giovanni ACQUARONI |
| Year: | 1820 ca. |
| Zone: | San Pietro |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 235 x 185 mm |
€130.00
| Reference: | A54232 |
| Author | Giovanni ACQUARONI |
| Year: | 1820 ca. |
| Zone: | San Pietro |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 235 x 185 mm |
€130.00
Description
A beautiful view of St. Peter's created by the engraver and copperplate artist Giovanni Acquaroni, active in Rome in the first half of the 19th century and a renowned contributor to the prestigious collections of Roman views published by leading publishers of the time (such as Piale and Franzetti).
The work offers a spectacular and detailed perspective of St. Peter's Square, with the Basilica's façade, the majestic dome, the central obelisk, and the embrace of Bernini's famous colonnade. The scene is enlivened in the foreground by figures and period carriages, faithfully capturing the atmosphere of 19th-century papal Rome. The bilingual caption (Italian and French) at the bottom is a distinctive feature of works intended for international travelers on the celebrated Grand Tour.
Etching, in excellent condition.
Giovanni ACQUARONI (attivo prima metà del sec. XIX)
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Copper engraver, active in the first half of the 19th century. He lacks precise personal data and lexicographers usually ignore his name. Very active since 1826, at the service of the Calcografia Camerale and private publishing in Rome (Franzetti, Cuccioni, Antonelli, Piale, Monaldini), in that year he collaborated to the New collection of one hundred main views of Rome and its surroundings, together with Pietro Parboni, Francesco Rinaldi and Pietro Ruga. In the same year he signed an Interior of the Pantheon for Antonelli, who spread it especially abroad, and he fired a Map of the vestiges of Rome according to the observations of Antonio De Romanis... by Antonio Nibby, edited by Venanzio Monaldini bookseller, from which his reputation as a cartographer is consolidated and in 1827 and 1829 he was commissioned by the Chalcography of the Chamber of Commerce to engrave two large Plants of Rome, one different from the other. But his health conditions, which had been bad for a long time, did not allow him to keep his commitment in full; therefore in May 1834, as it results from an annotation on the State of the engravers who were behind in the work of that Institute, he asked that the task be switched to a single plant, to be engraved "for the price of p(aoli) 3000 about" (it is perhaps the Plan of Rome at the beginning of the nineteenth century, inserted, as anonymous, in the catalog of the Calcografia Camerale).
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Giovanni ACQUARONI (attivo prima metà del sec. XIX)
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Copper engraver, active in the first half of the 19th century. He lacks precise personal data and lexicographers usually ignore his name. Very active since 1826, at the service of the Calcografia Camerale and private publishing in Rome (Franzetti, Cuccioni, Antonelli, Piale, Monaldini), in that year he collaborated to the New collection of one hundred main views of Rome and its surroundings, together with Pietro Parboni, Francesco Rinaldi and Pietro Ruga. In the same year he signed an Interior of the Pantheon for Antonelli, who spread it especially abroad, and he fired a Map of the vestiges of Rome according to the observations of Antonio De Romanis... by Antonio Nibby, edited by Venanzio Monaldini bookseller, from which his reputation as a cartographer is consolidated and in 1827 and 1829 he was commissioned by the Chalcography of the Chamber of Commerce to engrave two large Plants of Rome, one different from the other. But his health conditions, which had been bad for a long time, did not allow him to keep his commitment in full; therefore in May 1834, as it results from an annotation on the State of the engravers who were behind in the work of that Institute, he asked that the task be switched to a single plant, to be engraved "for the price of p(aoli) 3000 about" (it is perhaps the Plan of Rome at the beginning of the nineteenth century, inserted, as anonymous, in the catalog of the Calcografia Camerale).
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