Name: Antique Print-ROMAN MYTHOLOGY-GODS-BAS RELIEF-PANTHEON-Rastaini-Dolcibene-1778
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Antique Print-ROMAN MYTHOLOGY-GODS-BAS RELIEF-PANTHEON-Rastaini-Dolcibene-1778

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‘BASSORILIEVO DEL SOLE CON DIVERSE DEITA.’

– (‘Bas-relief of the sun with several deities’), left to right: Sol (Helios) in a chariot with four horses, a river god, Neptune, Minerva, Jupiter holding a lightning bolt in one hand and a staff in the other, Juno (?), Ceres holding a cornucopia. Two eagles flank Jupiter.

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Description

(‘Bas-relief of the sun with several deities’), left to right: Sol (Helios) in a chariot with four horses, a river god, Neptune, Minerva, Jupiter holding a lightning bolt in one hand and a staff in the other, Juno (?), Ceres holding a cornucopia. Two eagles flank Jupiter.

Made by Francesco Rastaini after Vincenzo Dolcibene.

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

Sheet size: 52.9 x 36 cm (20.83 x 14.17 inch). Image size: 49 x 31 cm. (19.29 x 12.2 inch).

Condition: good, given age. A dampstain in the far right edge of the image and margin (caused some creasing of the right margin). A small stain in the image. Light surface paper damage in margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ROMAN MYTHOLOGY-GODS-BAS RELIEF-PANTHEON | DPO-PCO-B1-14

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in a series of similar prints, ca. 1780 (estimate). Exact source unknown, to be determined.

Biography engraver: Francesco Rastaini (1750-?) was an Italian engraver. Vincenzo Dolcibene (c. 1746-1820) was an Italian painter/draughtsman and printmaker.