Pietro Aquila

Ornaments and Medallions in The Farnese Gallery

Pietro Aquila's "Ornaments and Medallions in The Farnese Gallery" is an original etching and engraving based upon a design by Annibale Carracci. This is printed on fine, hand-made, 17th century paper and with complete margins as printed for "The Farnese Gallery", around 1680. Statues and ornamental designs figure prominently in this set of twenty five highly decorative works. "Ornaments and Medallions in The Farnese Gallery" is a fine, original example of the 17th century art created by the Italian artist, Pietro Aquila.

Original Etching & Engraving by the 17th Century Italian artist, Pietro Aquila.

Ornaments and Medallions in The Farnese Gallery

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Title:	Ornaments and Medallions in The Farnese Gallery
Engraver:	Aquila, Pietro (Palermo, 1640 - Rome, 1696)
Designer:	Carracci, Annibale (Bologne, 1560 - Rome, 1609)
Date:	c. 1680
Medium:	Original Etching & Engraving
Note:	Pietro Aquila: A highly regarded seventeenth century engraver and etcher of designs after old master painters and his contemporaries, Pietro Aquila was not initially destined for an artistic life at all. His youth was passed in a seminary in preparation for an ecclesiastical vocation. And, upon Pietro Aquila's arrival in Rome (around 1660) he actually became a monk. Yet this in no way appears to have prevented him from following his natural inclination for art.
	Pietro Aquila was a fine painter but his reputation reached its highest peak for his engravings and etchings. Stylistically ahead of his time, Pietro Aquila employed a bold and free manner in his engraved works. During his career he received commissions to engrave works after Morandi, Maratti, Ferri and Pietro de Cortona. However, as Williamson writes, "His best prints are those he engraved after the Carracci, which are very highly esteemed." *
	This original engraving hails from a portfolio of prints by Pietro Aquila published and printed around 1680 and entitled, The Farnese Gallery. Statues and ornamental designs figure prominently in these highly decorative works which comprised twenty-five plates in all. In this, one of the most delightful engravings from the set, Pietro Aquila gives full play to his fertile imagination by contrasting varying mythological figures and elements.
	Annibale Carracci: The Bolognese brothers, Annibale Carracci (Bologne, 1560 - Rome, 1609) and Agostino Carracci (Bologna, 1557 - Parme, 1602) and their cousin Ludovico Carracci (Bologna, 1555 - 1619), were prominent figures that stood in opposition to the prevailing Mannerism of late 16th century Italian painting. After studying art under his uncle in Parma, Annibale Carracci first worked in Venice and Bologna.
	In the early 1580’s, the Carracci brothers founded the Accademia degli Incamminati (Academy of the Progressives) in Bologna. They laid special emphasis upon drawing from life and clear draughtsmanship which became associated with the artists of the Bolognese School.
	Around 1600, Annibale Carracci was invited to Rome by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese to decorate the Farnese Palace. During the next four years some of his most famous frescoes were created there. Regarded as a master of both figure and landscape painting, Annibale Carracci directly influenced such artists as Domenichino, Claude Lorrain and Poussin.
Reference:	* G. C. Williamson, Bryan's Dictionary of Painter and Engravers, London, Bell & Sons, 1930, Volume 1, pp. 50 & 51.
Source:	The Farnese Gallery
Size:	20 X 15 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $395.00 US
Condition:	Printed on fine, hand-made, seventeenth century paper and with complete margins as printed for The Farnese Gallery, Centre crease, as always. A strikingly printed very early of this spectacular seventeenth century engraving and etching. Contains The Fleur-Des-Lys watermark in a two line oval border. There is a brown ink stain in the lower right margin which does not go into the plate-mark. There is also a crease along the centre right area of the image. Ornaments and Medallions in The Farnese Gallery represents a superb, original example of the 17th century art of Pietro Aquila.
Subject:	Pietro Aquila, Ornaments and Medallions in the Farnese Gallery, original engraving and etching, Carracci, Statues and ornamental designs, artist, seventeenth century engraver
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