Cerimonia di beatificazione di Caterina de’ Ricci in Prato
| Reference: | 4387 |
| Author | Giuseppe ZOCCHI |
| Year: | 1746 |
| Zone: | Prato |
| Printed: | Florence |
| Measures: | - x - mm |
€1,500.00
| Reference: | 4387 |
| Author | Giuseppe ZOCCHI |
| Year: | 1746 |
| Zone: | Prato |
| Printed: | Florence |
| Measures: | - x - mm |
€1,500.00
Description
Pair of etching and burin engravings, 1746, signed in plate at lower right.
Magnificent proofs, impressed on coeval laid paper, trimmed to copper and applied to contemporary laid paper backing, in perfect condition. Very rare.
Saint Caterina de' Ricci, Florentine Dominican who was a nun and then prioress in Prato, was beatified in 1732 and then canonized by Benedict XIV on June 29, 1746.
Giuseppe Zocchi was a versatile and indefatigable artist, fresco painter and quadraturist with studies of perspective and architecture, painter, engraver and prolific draftsman, he received an accurate and updated training, carefully planned by his main patron, the cultured and enterprising Marquis Andrea Gerini.
Dimensions 450x350 and 315x480.
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Dimensioni 450x350 e 315x480.
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Giuseppe ZOCCHI (Firenze, 1711 o 1717 - Firenze, Maggio 1767).
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Italian painter and printmaker. He began his training in Florence. The Marchese Andrea Gerini took him under his protection from an early age, sending him to Rome, Bologna, Milan and Venice to continue his studies. In Venice Zocchi saw engravings of views by Michele Marieschi and Bernardo Bellotto and painted a small oval portrait of Andrea Gerini and Antonio Maria Zanetti (1750 or 1751; Venice, Correr). Zanetti was a Venetian connoisseur and a friend of Gerini.
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Literature
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Dimensioni 450x350 e 315x480.
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Giuseppe ZOCCHI (Firenze, 1711 o 1717 - Firenze, Maggio 1767).
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Italian painter and printmaker. He began his training in Florence. The Marchese Andrea Gerini took him under his protection from an early age, sending him to Rome, Bologna, Milan and Venice to continue his studies. In Venice Zocchi saw engravings of views by Michele Marieschi and Bernardo Bellotto and painted a small oval portrait of Andrea Gerini and Antonio Maria Zanetti (1750 or 1751; Venice, Correr). Zanetti was a Venetian connoisseur and a friend of Gerini.
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