Simulacro di Diana - Origina Etching After Agostino Tofanelli - 1821
By Giovanni Foto Veneto
Located in Roma, IT
Simulacro Di Diana is an original print realized by Giovanni Folo After Agostino Tofanelli. Original etching on copper. Hand-colored on black ink background. Designed by Agostino Tofanelli and engraved by Giovanni Foto (as printed on plate on lower right). Original title: Simulacro Di Diana detto volgarmente la ZIngarella Included frame: 60 x 50 cm From "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli.", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published in Rome, 1821. It deals with two volumes of engravings showing the main antique monuments or statues collected by the Prince Borghese in his Villa in Pincio Hill. Remarkable contemporary artists like Luigi Cunego, Gio. Batta Leonetti, Pietro Bettelini, Gio. Brunetti, Giovanni Ottaviani, Angelo Campanella, Pietro Fontana contributed. Drawings are, above all, by Agostino Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis, Teodoro Matteini. Giovanni Folo Veneto (Bassano, 1764 – Rome 1836) Giovanni Folo Veneto was an Italian engraver of the Neoclassic period, active in Italy. He studied with Giulio Golini and G.B. Mengardi in Venice. In 1781 he moved to Rome to study with Giovanni Volpato, but later he followed the style of the Volpato's pupil, Raffaello Morghen...
1820s Giovanni Foto Veneto Art
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