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| Reference: | S3755 |
| Author | Dominique BARRIERE |
| Year: | 1647 |
| Zone: | Villa Pamphili |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 386 x 250 mm |
| Reference: | S3755 |
| Author | Dominique BARRIERE |
| Year: | 1647 |
| Zone: | Villa Pamphili |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 386 x 250 mm |
View of Villa Pamphili, engraved by Dominique Barriere for Gian Giacomo de Rossi, around 1650.
The view is part of a series of eight engravings of the gardens of Rome and Tivoli, engraved by Mattheus Greuter and Francesco Corduba. First published by Greuter and his son-in-law, the Flemish artist Gottfried van Schayck, around 1623, the plates were later purchased and reprinted by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi around 1650. De Rossi added to the series a view of Villa Pamphili, likely engraved by Dominique Barriere.
The plates are still preserved at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. A. Grelle Iusco writes: “Le lastre sono sette ma una reca anche sul rovescio una matrice ... le otto incisioni, di epoche ed autori diversi, costituiscono un accorpamento che sembra di procedere da un nucleo iniziale di quattro lastre (ma cinque matrici) riferibile ... alla bottega di Gottfried van Schaych nel terzo decennio del secolo (Ville "Montalto, Medici, Mattei, Borghese" e, con ogni probabilità, "D'Este a Tivoli"), verso una integrazione che può supporsi antecedente il 1648, con due nuove vedute ... "Giardino del Belvedere" e il "Giardino del Quirinale" ... La serie dovette poi completarsi nella bottega de Giovanni Domenico con la "Veduta di Villa Panfili", ad evidenza la più tarda".
The Villa Pamphili was the last and most magnificent of the Roman villas built in the 16th- and 17th- centuries: the construction of the villa, under the architect G.F. Grimaldi and the sculptor Algardi,lasted from 1644 to 1648, and the gardens were laid out in 1650. The house included some of the finest stucco work of the 17th century, and a main feature of the gardens was the collection of Roman and Greek statuary, displayed in niches in the facade of the villa and in the grounds.
Magnificent proof, printed on coeval laid paper and applied to antique collection mount, in excellent condition. Example without the title and excudit at the bottom.
Bibliografia
Cf. The New Hollstein, The Greuter Family, II, pp. 67-78, fig. 3; C.A. Petrucci, Catalogo Generale delle Stampe tratte dai rami incisi posseduti dalla Calcografia Nazionale, p. 68, 1953; Thieme U. - Becker F., Allgemeines Lexikon Der Bildenden Künstler, V. 15 p. 8, 1907-50; Grelle Iusco, Indice delle stampe De Rossi, 1996, pp. 25, C9; Fuhring 2004 8003.
Dominique BARRIERE (Marsiglia, 1618; Roma, 18 Settembre 1678).
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French etcher and architectural designer. He arrived in Rome around 1640 where he settled permanently among its community of French artists. No records exist of his training, but his earliest etchings (1640–47) are historical and mythological scenes, such as the Battle of Bommel in 1585 (1640) after Guglielmo Cortese and Apollo and Python (c. 1647–52) after Domenichino’s painting for the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati.
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Dominique BARRIERE (Marsiglia, 1618; Roma, 18 Settembre 1678).
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French etcher and architectural designer. He arrived in Rome around 1640 where he settled permanently among its community of French artists. No records exist of his training, but his earliest etchings (1640–47) are historical and mythological scenes, such as the Battle of Bommel in 1585 (1640) after Guglielmo Cortese and Apollo and Python (c. 1647–52) after Domenichino’s painting for the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati.
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