Felsina
| Reference: | S44165 |
| Author | Giuseppe ZAULI |
| Year: | 1795 ca. |
| Measures: | 155 x 220 mm |
€450.00
| Reference: | S44165 |
| Author | Giuseppe ZAULI |
| Year: | 1795 ca. |
| Measures: | 155 x 220 mm |
€450.00
Description
Etching, aquatint and pencil manner, ca. 1795/1800, signed in plate lower right Giuseppe Zauli inc. From a drawing by Gateano Gandolfi.
Magnificent proof, impressed on contemporary laid paper, with margins or trimmed to copperplate, small tear in upper white part, otherwise in very good condition. Untouched sheet, with irregular paper margins, uncut.
Fèlsina was the main Etruscan city of Etruria Padana, which corresponds to present-day Bologna. There is also a legend that more simply traces the name Felsina to the namesake daughter of the Etruscan king Fero, one among many supposed founders of the city. The drawig depicts the woman, wearing a helmet and breastplate, holding in her right hand a shield in which the coat of arms of the city of Bologna is reproduced.
Giuseppe Zauli (1763 - 1822) was an Italian painter and engraver. He trained at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna. He was a collaborator of Francesco Rosaspina and Felice Giani. He devoted himself to the practice and teaching of engraving as professor of Drawing in the Departmental High School of the Rubicon based in Faenza. He was the first director of a school of fine arts in Faenza, called the "School of Drawing and Plastics," which began in 1796.
He was also an important collector of ancient drawings. Zauli is the author, as well as publisher, of all the engravings included in the Raccolta di vari disegni di Francesco Barbieri detto il Guercino, published between the penultimate and last decade of the 18th century. The techniques used by Zauli are the same as those employed by his Bolognese colleagues: etching, aquatint and pencil manner. The engravings reproduce drawings belonging to Massimiliano Gini, Count Antonio Colombani, the engraver Gaspare Ginanni, and Zauli himself.
Zauli does not only reproduce drawings by Guercino; his are also some prints that translate drawings by other artists. He is, in fact, one of the few Italian engravers who translate drawings by Correggio. a drawing by Ubaldo Gandolfi by Felice Giani and also by Gaetano Gandolfi.
Aquatint, often combined with the rotella, seems to be characteristic of the engravers active in the Emilian area, between Parma and Bologna. From Benigno Bossi to Giuseppe Zauli, via Francesco Rosaspina and Cesare Massimiliano Gini, just to name a few, the use of aquatint seems to be a constant, as is, though to a lesser extent, the attention to new printing techniques.
Rare work.
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Giuseppe Zauli (1763 - 1822) was an Italian painter and engraver. He trained at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna. He was a collaborator of Francesco Rosaspina and Felice Giani. He devoted himself to the practice and teaching of engraving as professor of Drawing in the Departmental High School of the Rubicon based in Faenza. He was the first director of a school of fine arts in Faenza, called the "School of Drawing and Plastics," which began in 1796.
He was also an important collector of ancient drawings. Zauli is the author, as well as publisher, of all the engravings included in the Raccolta di vari disegni di Francesco Barbieri detto il Guercino, published between the penultimate and last decade of the 18th century. The techniques used by Zauli are the same as those employed by his Bolognese colleagues: etching, aquatint and pencil manner. The engravings reproduce drawings belonging to Massimiliano Gini, Count Antonio Colombani, the engraver Gaspare Ginanni, and Zauli himself.
Zauli does not only reproduce drawings by Guercino; his are also some prints that translate drawings by other artists. He is, in fact, one of the few Italian engravers who translate drawings by Correggio. a drawing by Ubaldo Gandolfi by Felice Giani and also by Gaetano Gandolfi.
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Giuseppe Zauli (1763 - 1822) was an Italian painter and engraver. He trained at the Accademia Clementina in Bologna. He was a collaborator of Francesco Rosaspina and Felice Giani. He devoted himself to the practice and teaching of engraving as professor of Drawing in the Departmental High School of the Rubicon based in Faenza. He was the first director of a school of fine arts in Faenza, called the "School of Drawing and Plastics," which began in 1796.
He was also an important collector of ancient drawings. Zauli is the author, as well as publisher, of all the engravings included in the Raccolta di vari disegni di Francesco Barbieri detto il Guercino, published between the penultimate and last decade of the 18th century. The techniques used by Zauli are the same as those employed by his Bolognese colleagues: etching, aquatint and pencil manner. The engravings reproduce drawings belonging to Massimiliano Gini, Count Antonio Colombani, the engraver Gaspare Ginanni, and Zauli himself.
Zauli does not only reproduce drawings by Guercino; his are also some prints that translate drawings by other artists. He is, in fact, one of the few Italian engravers who translate drawings by Correggio. a drawing by Ubaldo Gandolfi by Felice Giani and also by Gaetano Gandolfi.
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