Giovan Battista Falda

Place di Porta a Boulogne - Original Etching by G.B. Falda

Second Half of 17th Century

Salone Square in Padua is a print realized by G. Riccio in the 19th century. Etching Hand-watercolored on paper. titled on the plate. Good conditions with foxing

Navona Square - Rome is an original artwork realized by Giuseppe Malandrino. Original print in etching technique. Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right corner. Num...

Anticaglie Preso Il Ponte Palatino is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lowe...

Navona Square - Rome is an original artwork realized by Giuseppe Malandrino. Original print in etching technique. Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right corner. Nu...

Piazza Colona Etching, 1752 From: Della Magnificenze di Roma Antica e Moderna ( The Magnificense of Ancient and Modern Rome) , (1747-1761) Volume II, The Main Squares and Obelisks, columns and other ornaments, 1752, Plate No. 22 Della Magnificenze di Roma Antica e Moderna_ (1747-61), a collection of 238 plates that was published in ten volumes. Vasi recorded all types of architecture and organized these images of contemporary Rome by subject, with each volume representing a different category of architecture. This comprehensive project provides one of the most complete views of eighteenth-century Rome Signed in the plate lower left Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 8 1/4 x 12 11/16 inches Sheet size: 11 x 15 7/8 inches Vasi was Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s teacher. Piranesi (1720-1778) entered Vasi’s studio as an apprentice at age 20 c. 1740. Piranesi left Vasi’s employment after stabbing Vasi over the perception that Vasi was withholding secrets of the etching process. Giuseppe Vasi was an Italian engraver and painter born and trained in Sicily. He received a classical education in his hometown of Corleone and trained as a printmaker in nearby Palermo, perhaps under the tutelage of the etchers Antonino Bova and Francesco Cichè. He moved to Rome in 1736, already an established printmaker, and spent most of his career documenting the urban landscape of the city in engravings. Through his patron, the politically and culturally influential Cardinal Troiano Acquaviva d’Aragona, Vasi met other artists working in Rome, such as Sebastiano Conca, Ferdinando Fuga, and Luigi Vanvitelli. He was also influenced by his predecessors, including Giovanni Paolo Panini, Giovanni Battista Falda...

Over 350 year old antique copper engraving of the floor plan to the Palace of Cardinal Este located in Tivoli, Italy by Italian Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 1650. Original artwork on ...

'Cortile del Palazzo di Venezia, Colla Chiesa di San Marco' Tinted lithograph by Eugene Ciceri after Felix Benoist. Figures by Bayot. From a French series titled 'Rome dans Sa Gran...

'Piazza e Basilica de Santi Apostoli. Palazzi Odescalchi e Colonna' Tinted lithograph by Philippe Benoist (1813-1881). From a French series titled 'Rome dans Sa Grandeur', circa 18...