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Fine Art Research question, 18th Century engravings:
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Visual Arts Asked by: j8-ga List Price: $50.00 |
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14 Nov 2004 14:45 PST
Expires: 15 Nov 2004 18:33 PST Question ID: 428901 |
Who is the Artist who engraved the following 2 etchings/engravings? A: "La Veduta del Franco destra della Basilica Vaticana" - 1778 Procession of Principle Clergy around the church of St. Peter's in the Vatican, Rome. B: "L'Interno della Basilica Vaticana" - 1775 Interior view and Investiture of Pope Innocent XIII within the church of St. Peter's in the Vatican, Rome These 2 etchings/engravings are depicted and described on the web page of "Lord Russborough's Annex" http://www.russborough.com/JCM/architecture/rossini/rossini_base.htm The same engravings were sold on ebay on October 25, 2004. Use these two sources(russborough.com & ebay) to identify the engravings in question only, but not as a source to verrify the artist who make them. Excluding these two sources, what other documentation is available that they are by Luigi Rossini, who was of course not born by the dates on these engravings? I am wondering if they could be in fact by Giuseppe Vasi. Or perhaps by another artist? |
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Re: Fine Art Research question, 18th Century engravings:
From: geof-ga on 14 Nov 2004 22:24 PST |
Simply because these engravings purport to depict events before Rossini was born doesn't mean that they could not have been his work. Many artists - especially of that period - chose to populate their architectural views with imagined people and historic happenings. The "Lord Russborough's Annex" website states categorically that these particular prints are from Rossini's book LE ANTICHITA ROMANE, published in 1829, and seems to give a individual page reference for each one. It's hard to believe that they would do this, if the engarvings were not in fact by Rossini, and were produced around the dates of the events depicted. |
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