Giacomo Manzú

Le Georgiche di Virgilio, including illustrations by G. Manzù

1948

The paintings of Giovanni D'Aroma is a vintage Catalogue issued by Galleria della Cometa for the painter's third year of exposure at the Galleria della Cometa in Rome. 4 pages, bla...

Totò il buono is an original modern rare book illustrated by Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 – Rome, 1989) and written by Cesare Zavattini in 1943. Original Edition. Published by Bompia...

Flipping through a few pages of " Il Selvaggio, No.2- 1940 " 15 April 1940-Anno-XVIII.", "Annual supporter subscription - Una copia 40 Cent - Fortnightly Newspaper letters arts and s...

"Il Selvaggio, no.3 - 1933", "Annual supporter subscription - Una copia 40 Cent - Fortnightly Newspaper letters arts and sciences", including original woodcuts by the artist Mino Ma...

Calchi di Intagli e Cammei della Collezione Paoletti. Polistampa, Firenze, 1998. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. Collection of carvings and cameos from the Paoletti collect...

FIRST and ONLY EDITION Doni, Anton Francesco Disegno del Doni; Partito in più ragionamenti, ne quali si tratta della scoltura et pittura .... Venice: Gabriel Giolito Di Ferrari, 15...

Gli Arredi Francesi by Gonzalez-Palacios. Electa, Milan, 1996. First edition hardcover with dust jacket and slip-case. Profusely illustrated in color and in black and white. 404 page...

This masterly frontispiece study, executed with a very sure hand, testifies to the survival of the great Baroque taste in 18th century Venice. It could be one of the very last works by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini: the few lines that cross the papal arms evoke those of Benedict XIV, who became pope in 1740, one year before the artist's death. 1. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini and the European influence of Venetian history painting in the 18th century Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini was born in Venice in 1675 and trained in the studio of the Milanese painter Paolo Pagani (1655 - 1716). Pagani, who had been living in Venice since 1667, took him to Moravia and Vienna from 1690 to 1696. After a stay in Rome from 1699 to 1701, Pellegrini married Angiola Carriera in 1704, the sister of the great pastelist Rosalba Carriera. From 1708 onwards, Pellegrini left Venice and began an extensive tour of Europe: he worked in England between 1708 and 1713, where he met great success, particularly at Kimbolton Castle and Castle Howard. He then worked in Germany and the Netherlands, then in Bohemia and Austria, before returning briefly to England in 1719. In 1720 he was in Paris where he decorated the ceilings of the Royal Bank for John Law...