Giuseppe Malandrino

View of Piazza Navona - Original Etching by Giuseppe Malandrino - 1970s

1970s

View of Piazza Navona is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1970 by the Italian artist Giuseppe Malandrino (Modica, 1910 - Rome, 1979). Etching on cardboard. Hand-sign...

View of Piazza Navona is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1970 by the Italian artist Giuseppe Malandrino (Modica, 1910 - Rome, 1979). Etching on cardboard. Hand-sign...

View of Piazza Navona is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1970 by the Italian artist Giuseppe Malandrino (Modica, 1910 - Rome, 1979). Etching on cardboard. Hand-sign...

View of Piazza Navona is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1970 by the Italian artist Giuseppe Malandrino (Modica, 1910 - Rome, 1979). Etching on cardboard. Hand-si...

Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Piazza Navona, Rome, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 45, Image Size: 24 x 29.5 inches, Size: 2...

Engraving on laid paper of the Piazza Navona in Rome. The view is expansive, with the Fontana del Moro in the foreground, the Fiumi Fountain in the center of the piazza, and the dome...

Piazza Navona allagata solito farsi nelle Feste di Agosto Etching, 1752 Signed in the plate lower right (see photo) 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. 26 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 Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 8 .25 x 12.63 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...

Venetian View of Santa Maria della Salute Etching and aquatint 14 x 18 cm Signed in bottom left and right hand corners. View of Santa Maria della Salute from Riva degli Schiavani ...