Prints documenting the Festival of the Chinea. 1726-1773.

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Prints documenting the Festival of the Chinea. 1726-1773.

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Captioned prints depicting the temporary structures used in the Festa della Chinea, the 18th century Roman festival presented on the eve and feast of SS. Peter and Paul (28, 29 June) by the princes of the Colonna family. The prints were designed by the architects to the Colonna family, namely Alessandro Specchi, Gabriele Valvassori, Bartolomeo Poli, Nicola Michetti, and Paolo Possi. Engravers include: Francesco Aquila, Gasparo Massi, Filippo Vasconi, Giovanni Battista Sintes, Giuseppe Pozzi, Giuseppe Vasi, and Andrea Rossi.

13 prints : etchings ; 46 x 67 cm.

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Posi, Paolo, 1708-1776

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Italian architects, Paolo Posi and his student, Giuseppe Palazzi, were principal architects of the "macchine" for the Chinea festival after 1750. From the description of Drawings for the Festival of the Chinea. 1755-1782. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83630292 ...

Poli, Bartolomeo

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Massi, Gasparo, 1698?-1731?

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Vasi, Giuseppe, 1710-1782

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Giuseppe Vasi was an Italian printmaker and archaeologist. He studied with Sebastiano Conca, Pier Leone Ghezzi, and Filippo Juvara, and became the first teacher of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Among his most famous works are the topographical views of Rome, issued between 1747 and 1761 in ten volumes under the title "Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna" and also this print. Giuseppe Vasi was born in 1710 in Corleone, Sicily, and died in 1782 in Rome. From the description of Pr...

Aquila, Francesco Faraone, approximately 1676-1740

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Pozzi, Giuseppe, d. 1765,

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History painter and etcher Giuseppe Pozzi, brother of Stefano Pozzi, studied with Agostino Masucci and was active in Rome. From the description of Disegno della seconda machina rappresentante una cuccagna a similitudine di quelle che si fanno nej felicissimi regni delle Due Sicilie : incendiata per commando di Sua Eccellenza il. sig.r principe Don Lorenzo Colonna gran contestabile del regno di Napoli &c. &c. ambasciatore straordinario di Sua Maestà il re' delle Due Sicilie &...

Rossi, Andrea, active 1727-1775

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Specchi, Alessandro, 1668-1729

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Vasconi, Filippo, 1687?-1730

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Sintes, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1680-approximately 1760

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Valvassori, Gabriele, 1683-1741.

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