Il Santo Padre in atto d'adorazione innanzi al Sacramento esposto solennemente da Lui nella Cappella Paolina...
| Reference: | S46889 |
| Author | Francesco PIRANESI |
| Year: | 1787 |
| Measures: | 515 x 765 mm |
€800.00
| Reference: | S46889 |
| Author | Francesco PIRANESI |
| Year: | 1787 |
| Measures: | 515 x 765 mm |
€800.00
Description
Ceremony held in the Cappella Paolina, in the Vatican palace, after Desprez, with clerics seen from behind kneeling in the foreground, and beyond the chapell, illuminated by candles.
Etching, 1787, lettered with title and production detail: 'Despres del. - Cav Franco Piranesi inc. 1787; bottom center Il Santo Padre in atto d'adorazione innanzi al Sacramento esposto solennemente da Lui nella Cappella Paolina in Vaticano la Domenica dell'Avvento. Si la grandiosa illuminazione che tutto il rimanente della machina, sono invenzione è disegno del Bernino.
This is one of series of separately issued engravings of dramatically lit scenarios engraved and published by Francesco after drawings by the stage-designer Louis-Jean Desprez (1743-1804) - others include 'Il Santo Padre in adorazione nella Cappella Paolina in Vaticano' (1787), 'Prospetto interiore del Tempio Vaticano ...' (1787), qq.v., 'Fuoco artificiale detto la Girandola ...' [1788?], and a view of the eruption of Vesuvius in 1779.
This is a later state of the plate. The first state was in outline, etched by Piranesi as a base for Desprez to watercolour. After Desprez's departure from Italy, Piranesi reworked the plate so that it could be printed without needing to be coloured.
A good impression on early 19th Century laid paper, full margins, very good conditions.
Bibliografia
Wollin 1933 / Gravure originales de Desprez ou executées d'après ses dessins (p.112-113(2)); Piranèse et les francais, 1740-1790, exhibition catalogue, ed. B. K. de Rola; Rome, Académie de France, 1976, pp. 121, 124-5; Magnus Olausson, “Desprez et Piranèse fils: de l’original à la reproduction,” La Chimère de Monsieur Desprez, ed. Régis Michel, Paris, 1994, pp. 47-50; Le Blanc C., Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, 2, V. 2 p. 207, 1854-59; Petrucci C.A., Catalogo Generale delle Stampe tratte dai rami incisi posseduti dalla Calcografia Nazionale, 1015, p. 300, tav. 4, 1953.
Francesco PIRANESI (Roma 1758 - Parigi 1810)
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Son of Giovanni Battista, and heir to his plates. Etcher and publisher in Rome; held office in the Roman Republic of 1798, and had to flee with all his plates to Paris in 1799, where he established (with his brothers Peter and Laura, also engravers), the Chalcographie Piranesi des Frères and a factory of terracotta of ancient models. Francesco (1758–1810), who played an important part in completing his father's later works, notably the Vasi…Francesco Piranesi published a map of the Villa Adriana, Tivoli (1781), and added new plates to further editions of the Vedute, Antichità, and other works. Most importantly, he issued a massive collection of graphic works in 27 volumes (1800–7) as well as a three-volume set of Antiquités de la Grande Grèce (1804–7) based on his father's work at Pompeii.
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Francesco PIRANESI (Roma 1758 - Parigi 1810)
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Son of Giovanni Battista, and heir to his plates. Etcher and publisher in Rome; held office in the Roman Republic of 1798, and had to flee with all his plates to Paris in 1799, where he established (with his brothers Peter and Laura, also engravers), the Chalcographie Piranesi des Frères and a factory of terracotta of ancient models. Francesco (1758–1810), who played an important part in completing his father's later works, notably the Vasi…Francesco Piranesi published a map of the Villa Adriana, Tivoli (1781), and added new plates to further editions of the Vedute, Antichità, and other works. Most importantly, he issued a massive collection of graphic works in 27 volumes (1800–7) as well as a three-volume set of Antiquités de la Grande Grèce (1804–7) based on his father's work at Pompeii.
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