View of the small Square adjacent to the Channel and of the public Prisons of St. Mark of Venice

Reference: S5458
Author Domenico LOVISA
Year: 1717 ca.
Measures: 470 x 345 mm
€500.00

Reference: S5458
Author Domenico LOVISA
Year: 1717 ca.
Measures: 470 x 345 mm
€500.00

Description

Taken from “Il Gran Teatro di Venezia ovvero descrizione esatta di cento delle più insigni prospettive e di altretante celebri pitture della medesima città” (The Great Theatre of Venice or the accurate description of the most significant views and beautiful paintings in this city).

This work comprises about two hundred prints and was published for the first time in 1717 by Lovisa, editor in Venice in the first half of the XVIII century.Etching, circa 1717, signed on plate at lower right. Magnificent proof, printed on contemporary laid paper with "name of Jesus" watermark, wide margins, traces of vertical central fold, repaired tear at lower margin, light staining at margins, overall in very good conditions.

Domenico LOVISA (Venezia 1690 circa – 1750 circa)

Italian publisher. His printing press was situated 'underneath the arches at Rialto' in Venice, and he is known almost exclusively for the publication of a series of large prints, titled Il Gran Teatro di Venezia ovvero descrizione esatta di cento delle più insigni prospettive e di altretante celebri pitture della medesima città. The first edition is undated, but it probably came out c. 1717. As originally planned, the series was to include 200 prints, but this ambition was not realized, and even the second edition (1720, 2 vols) has only c. 120 prints. The approximately 57 plates contained in the first volume reproduce paintings that hung in Venetian public buildings, including works by Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto, Palma Giovane. They were engraved by Andrea Zucchi, Domenico Rossetti (1650-1736), Giacomo Burri, Domenico Bonavera (b 1640), Pietro Sante Bartoli, Agostino dalla Via and others. The second volume contains a varying number (up to 66) of views of Venice (see exh. Cat., figs 279-82) engraved by Filippo Vasconi (1687-1730), Giuseppe Valeriani (d 1761), Carlo and Andrea Zucchi, as well as an unidentified monogrammist, S.F. This series was reprinted a number of times in the 18th century.

Domenico LOVISA (Venezia 1690 circa – 1750 circa)

Italian publisher. His printing press was situated 'underneath the arches at Rialto' in Venice, and he is known almost exclusively for the publication of a series of large prints, titled Il Gran Teatro di Venezia ovvero descrizione esatta di cento delle più insigni prospettive e di altretante celebri pitture della medesima città. The first edition is undated, but it probably came out c. 1717. As originally planned, the series was to include 200 prints, but this ambition was not realized, and even the second edition (1720, 2 vols) has only c. 120 prints. The approximately 57 plates contained in the first volume reproduce paintings that hung in Venetian public buildings, including works by Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto, Palma Giovane. They were engraved by Andrea Zucchi, Domenico Rossetti (1650-1736), Giacomo Burri, Domenico Bonavera (b 1640), Pietro Sante Bartoli, Agostino dalla Via and others. The second volume contains a varying number (up to 66) of views of Venice (see exh. Cat., figs 279-82) engraved by Filippo Vasconi (1687-1730), Giuseppe Valeriani (d 1761), Carlo and Andrea Zucchi, as well as an unidentified monogrammist, S.F. This series was reprinted a number of times in the 18th century.