Ecclesia S. Laurentii extra portam Esquilinam
| Reference: | s12395 |
| Author | Giovanni MAGGI |
| Year: | 1600 ca. |
| Zone: | San Lorenzo |
| Printed: | Augsburg |
| Measures: | 155 x 90 mm |
€200.00
| Reference: | s12395 |
| Author | Giovanni MAGGI |
| Year: | 1600 ca. |
| Zone: | San Lorenzo |
| Printed: | Augsburg |
| Measures: | 155 x 90 mm |
€200.00
Description
A very rare work, engraved by Giovanni Maggi, published in the "Deliciae Urbis Romae, divinae et Humanae, sacred year Jubilaei former MDC ... chalcographia Dominicj Custod. C. August", published for the first time in Augsburg, 1600, by the engraver and publisher Dominicus Custos, on the occasion of the Jubilee Year.
Of the Eternal City's work depicts and describes the "deliciae divinae", or churches, and the "deliciae Humanae", or bridges, obelisks, columns.
The engraving of most of the plates is to be attributed to Giovanni Maggi.
If some are referring to the years 1596-98, others appear earlier and matured in the climate of the Sistine jubilee of 1590.
Etching and engraving, on contemporary laid paper, text in Latin at the margin and on verso, in very good conditions.
Literature
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S. Borsi, Roma di Urbano VIII: la pianta di Giovanni Maggi, 1625, in Officina, 1990, p. 24; Rossetti 2080, Cicognara 3693, Kissner 100, Olschki 16789.
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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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Literature
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S. Borsi, Roma di Urbano VIII: la pianta di Giovanni Maggi, 1625, in Officina, 1990, p. 24; Rossetti 2080, Cicognara 3693, Kissner 100, Olschki 16789.
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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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