Giovanni Ottaviani Prints

"4 copper plate engravings with later hand coloring """"Loggie di Raffaelo nel Vaticano"""" by Giovanni Ottaviani (1735-1808) after drawings by Pietro Camporesi (1726-81) and Gaetano...

These three copperplate engravings on paper engraved by Giovanni Ottaviani (Rome 1735-1808) after the designs of the painter Gaetano Savorelli and of the architect Pietro Camporesi , are hand-finished with watercolor and gouache painting and date back to neoclassical period with a formal sense of the Renaissance style. These engravings are the plate II, VIII and XIII of the original 16th century frescoes painted by Raffaello on the main storey of Pope’s private apartments in Vatican. In 1518 Pope Leo X commissioned Raphael for a master work that remains unparalleled in artistic decorative and architectural history: to decorate with frescoes the walls, ceilings, vaulted arcade(loggia), arches and doors of his private apartments of the Vatican. The idea of creating a work divided into three parts that reproduced, in "imperial" sheets engraved and colored with the watercolor, the complete series of all the original painted decorations of the Vatican Loggias...