Title: |
Pietro Medici |
Artist: |
Campiglia, Giovanni Domenico (Florence, 1692 1768) |
Date: |
1766 |
Medium: |
Original Line Engraving |
Source: |
The Museum Florentium |
Note: |
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia: An eighteenth
century Italian painter, designer and engraver, Giovanni Domenico Campiglia
studied art in Florence under Tomasso Redi and Lorenzo del Moro. During his career,
Campiglia was mainly employed at Rome and Florence, both painting and engraving
historical subjects and portraits. Giovanni Domenico Campiglia worked for over a decade on the Museum
Florentium, designing and engraving some of the best works in that famous collection. |
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This original portrayal of Pietro Medici is of particular
interest because it depicts a patron of the arts and a prominent member
of Italy’s most powerful family. |
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The Museum Florentium: A. F. Gori’s monumental Museum
Florentium set out to engrave all the portraits of painters, architects,
sculptors and patrons of the arts in the major galleries of Florence.
This vast undertaking was issued in individual parts as it took over
thirty years (1731-1766) to complete. The bulk of the engraving fell
to four of Florence’s best artists, Giovanni Domenico Campiglia,
Pietro Pazzi, Cosimo Mogalli and Lorenzini. |
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With its high level of artistry the Museum Florentium is
now regarded as one of the greatest series of portrait engravings published
in the eighteenth century. It also stands as a fascinating visual record
of artist related portraits with a general emphasis upon the Renaissance
era to the mid eighteenth century. |
Size: |
11 X 7 5/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
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Price: $295.00 US |
Condition: |
Printed on eighteenth century, hand-made, laid paper as
published in Florence in 1766. A beautifully printed impression bearing
all the fine lines of an early printing and in excellent condition throughout.
This original engraving represents a prime example of the art of G. D.
Campiglia and of the influential Museum Florentium series. |
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