Festa di Sant'Andrea ad Amalfi

Reference: S5474
Author Johan Fredrik MARTIN
Year: 1790 ca.
Zone: Amalfi
Printed: London
Measures: 840 x 535 mm
€3,000.00

Reference: S5474
Author Johan Fredrik MARTIN
Year: 1790 ca.
Zone: Amalfi
Printed: London
Measures: 840 x 535 mm
€3,000.00

Description

View of the feast of St. Andrew in Amalfi , taken from a drawing by Louis Jean Desprez.

Amalfi celebrates St. Andrew, patron saint of the city, twice a year, on Nov. 30, the other June 27 anniversary of the miracle that saved the city from the invasion of Amalfi pirate Kair -Ad- Din said Barbarossa in 1544. St. Andrew is the patron of fishermen from all over the world, fishmongers and all those that have to do with fishing . The celebrations of November 30 , participates in the entire population, and it is on this occasion that happens the "miracle of St. Andrew " , in many ways very similar to the miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro.

Likely that the realized design Desprez during his trip to Italy, during which describes a lot of places in southern Italy , then iconographic basis for the " Voyage Pittoresque " by the Richard de Saint-Non.

Aquatint printed with bistro ink, slightly trimmed within the marginal line, small cracks of paper, otherwise in excellent condition. An extremely rare work.

Literature

Frölich, Johan Fredrik Martins gravyrer, Stockholm, 1939, 291 II.

Johan Fredrik MARTIN(Stoccolma 1755 - ivi 1816)

Literature

Frölich, Johan Fredrik Martins gravyrer, Stockholm, 1939, 291 II.

Johan Fredrik MARTIN(Stoccolma 1755 - ivi 1816)