Ponte S.Angelo - Vintage Offset Print after Giuseppe Vasi - Early 20th century

Early 20th Century

Trionfale Bridge is a vintage offset print realized in the Early 20th Century after Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions. Giuseppe Vasi (Corle...

View of Ripa Grande is a vintage offset print realized in the early 20th Century by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions. Giuseppe Vasi (Corle...

Ponte Milvio is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rom...

View of Castel Sant'Angelo and the Vatican is a vintage offset print realized after Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions. Giuseppe Vasi (Corle...

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...

Antique print titled 'Afbeelding van 't Collegio de Propaganda Fide, of voortplantinge des Geloofs'. Antique print depicting the Collegio di Propaganda fide in Rome. This print origi...

Antique print titled 'Paleis van den Prins Altieri, op de plaets del Gesu.' This print originates from 'Hedendaagsche historie van, en reis-boek door Italien'. Amst., M. de Bruyn, 1779.

Antique print titled 'Paleis Curia Innocentiana op den Berg Citorio'. This print originates from 'Hedendaagsche historie van, en reis-boek door Italien'. Amst., M. de Bruyn, 1779.