IIII etching, 44圆2.7cm and "Veduta del Tempio Giovanni Battista Piranesi 1720-1778 "RovineGiovanni Battista Piranesi 1720-1778 "Rovine del Tempio Supposto di Ercole Nella Citta di Corra", Tav.A Group of Antique Piranesi Engravings includingA Group of Antique Piranesi Engravings including 38 prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian 1720-1778) including Il Campo Marzio frontispiece (Wilton-Ely."Angels Feeding Christ after the Temptation by the Devil" pen and blue-grey wash on cream-colored laid paper Venetian or Central Italian School 19th c.Venetian or Central Italian School 19th c.Search our price guide for your own treasures 297-310 Hind pp.A few examples of appraisal values for PIRANESI , hill vestiges of the ancient Tiber island, the remains of the theaters. In the fourth the ancient bridges of Rome. In the second and third the remains of the sepulchral monuments existing in Rome, and in the Agro Romano with their respective plants. and illustrated with fragments of the ancient marble ichnography, and with a critical index. The Roman antiquities by the cavalier Giambatista Piranesi Venetian architect divisa in four volumes, the first of which contains the remains of the ancient buildings in Rome, arranged on a topographical table. This copy is offered in the best possible conditions, with the editorial binding prepared by Piranesi in his atelier and the freshness of incisions as sharp as they have just come out of the presses. While still alive, his work was celebrated or opposed by patrons, collectors, artists and intellectuals. ![]() " & nbsp Ī great personality, on the Italian and international scene: " Engraver, editor, topographer, architect, decorator, polemicist, merchant, Piranesi, with his volcanic personality and charismatic character, with his outbursts of enthusiasm and his fits of anger, the o vengeful, jealous, greedy and interested spirit and his indefatigable ability to work, aroused admiration, awe, aversion in his contemporaries. Also for them in 1761 he published & nbsp Of the magnificence and architecture of the Romans : " the text, certainly written by several hands, is a polemical proclamation of the superiority of Roman civilization, of which the aspects deriving from Greece are denied the tables reproduce the great public works of antiquity to exalt the extraordinary technical skills and creative exuberance of Roman architecture, opposed to the simple uniformity of the Greek one. The works present here were mainly intended for the many European travelers who came on "pilgrimage" to admire the masterpieces of Roman antiquity. " (Treccani, sub vocis )įrom the end of the forties of the eighteenth century, it became & nbsp figure of reference in the numerous international community present in Rome, linked to the phenomenon of & nbsp grand tour. The artist, Piranesi postulated, must be able to create his works for a free market, rejecting any conditioning inherent in the mechanisms of aristocratic clients and claiming a social and entrepreneurial role that would reach full maturity in the following century. But they also made Piranesi aware of the need for a " total independence of the intellectual from the consolidated mechanisms of patronage. ![]() The first edition of Roman Antiquities dated 1756, & nbsp four volumes with a total of 252 tables, some of which were added in the final edition of 1757, further enriched in the editions & nbsp The problems that arose with Charlemont, his first financier, led to the replacement of the title pages, with a dedication to posterity and the addition of the formula «utilitate publicae ". SUPERB EXAMPLE OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES and related volumes, IN ITS ORIGINAL CARTONATO, AS OUT OF THE PIRANESIAN TYPOGRAPHY, WITH TABLES WITH A VERY FRESH IMPRESSION & In Atlantic folio, 415 x 540 mm., 26 plates the first work, & nbsp 9 plates the second, 12 plates the third, editorial hardcover of the Piranesian printing house. ![]() In Atlantic folio, 415 x 540 mm., Portrait on the Piranesi title page, 3 large engraved titles, 2 index sheets, dedication double-page spread to the public and to posterity, 245 engravings on 212 papers, many double-page or folded, editorial hardcover by Piranesian printing house. Battista Piranesi member of the Royal Academy of Antiquaries of London, Romae, 1761. In Atlantic folio, 415 x 540 mm., 4 volumes, editorial hardcover by the Piranesian printing house § Of the magnificence and architecture of the Romans by Gio. Rome, & nbsp in the Salomoni printing house in the square of S.
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