Name: 19-Antique Master Prints-SAINT BENEDICT-BENEDETTO-SERIE-Giovannini-Carracci-1715
SKU: PCO-5546
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19-Antique Master Prints-SAINT BENEDICT-BENEDETTO-SERIE-Giovannini-Carracci-1715

€2,475.00

‘VARIOUS INSCRIPTIONS, INCLUDING: ‘GIAC. GIOVANNINI DEL. E SCOL.’, ‘LODOVICO CARRACCI INV. E DIP.’, ‘G. ROMANUS DEL.’, ‘GIO: CAVEDONI INV.E DIPIN., ETC.’

– A series of 18 prints plus title depicting religious, allegorical, and architectural scenes after frescoes from the Chiostro di San Michele in Bosco in Bologna. Scenes include Totila visiting Saint Benedict, monks building, figures exorcising demons, donation scenes, Atlantes bearing architectural columns, and ascending angels. The series merges narrative and architectural grandeur in a distinctly Baroque idiom.

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Description

Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 40 x 60 cm (15.75 x 23.62 inch). Image size: 37 x 55 cm. (14.57 x 21.65 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

GIOVANNINI, CARRACCI, SAINT BENEDICT, BAROQUE, ATLANTES, ARCHITECTURAL ENGRAVINGS, MONASTIC LIFE, BOLOGNA, ITALIAN ETCHING, LUDOVICO CARRACCI, GIACOMO GIOVANNINI, MONASTIC HISTORY, BIBLICAL SCENES | PCO-E30-79

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Set of 18 plates plus title plate from the 1715 edition of Il Chiostro di San Michele in Bosco. Most prints numbered; about the life of Saint Benedict, allegorical figures, and architectural studies of atlantes. Loose sheets.

Reference: Catalogo Nazionale ICCD: 0800427694, 0800427695, 0500260728-4, 0300619150-4.

Only 12 images are shown. Inquiry for addional images.

Biography engraver: Giacomo Maria Giovannini (1667-1717) was an Italian engraver known for his reproductive etchings after major Bolognese masters.

Biography artist: Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619) was an influential painter of the Bolognese School and a co-founder of the Accademia degli Incamminati. Other contributing artists include Lorenzo Garbieri and Giacomo Cavedoni, both Carracci pupils.